HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 . 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 660 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2176 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 +15%

345

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 +19%

1242

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 +88%

217

HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.84 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

2500 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

1.75

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 512

900 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

13.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

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

1x 48MP, 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

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

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

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

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

May 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM6115

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

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