HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Google Tensor G5

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

Google Tensor G5

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 3400MHz Google Tensor G5 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G5 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.536 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Google Tensor G5 +1235%

1536

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Google Tensor G5

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525

2500 MHz

Frequency

3400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

16 nm

Process

3 nm

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

-

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

4

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11.2

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Aug 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

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