HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus . 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 2200MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4864 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus +189%

866

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus +78%

1859

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus +322%

486

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2500 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

8 nm

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 619

900 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

4

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4864 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 800 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SM4350-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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