HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

HiSilicon Kirin 960

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2360MHz)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Released 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +36%

408

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +33%

1385

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +130%

265

HiSilicon Kirin 955

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

16 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

4

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

4

Execution units

8

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

-

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3660

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