HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 4320MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4320MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite +2838%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)

2500 MHz

Frequency

4320 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.7-A

-

L2 cache

24 MB

16 nm

Process

3 nm

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 830

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

4

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

1536

4

Max size

24

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

3.0

11.2

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

-

Memory frequency

5300 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

42.7 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2540

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9

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

Audio codecs

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X80

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

6.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Oct 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8750-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

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