HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 . 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 9W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.727 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +89%

566

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +99%

2075

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +532%

727

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2500 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

256 KB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 630

900 MHz

GPU frequency

710 MHz

4

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.727 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

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 685

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K 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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X20

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 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

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Dec 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SDM845

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

Related SoC Comparison

1

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

2

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1000L

3

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

4

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs HiSilicon Kirin 655

5

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Samsung Exynos 2100

6

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Samsung Exynos 2200

7

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Helio P20

8

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Helio G91

9

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Google Tensor G4

10

HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs MediaTek Helio G25