HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1152 TFLOPS vs 0.0288 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2000MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +310%

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

28

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

12 nm

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 504

900 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0288 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

-

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

1600 x 900

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Jun 2018

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SDM429

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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