HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

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HiSilicon Kirin 955 Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 . 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 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +45%

299

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

206

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +25%

1040

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

832

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +167%

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

43

HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 505

900 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

48

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0432 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

800 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 536

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

1920 x 1200

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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. 4

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

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

MSM8937

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

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