HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1248 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +43%

299

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +13%

1040

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 506

900 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

96

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 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

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264

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

Audio codecs

AIFF

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 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

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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