HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus . 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 6W)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 2500MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)
Released 3 years and 3 months late
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 955
299
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
+247%
1040
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 955
1040
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
+175%
2865
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 955
115
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
+800%
1036
CPU
4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
2500 MHz
Frequency
2960 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
-
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
0
16 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.7
5 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-T880 MP4
GPU name
Adreno 640
900 MHz
GPU frequency
675 MHz
4
Execution units
2
16
Shading units
384
4
Max size
16
0.1152 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.0368 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
4x 16 Bit
-
Max bandwidth
34.13 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 690
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Storage type
UFS 3.0
1920 x 1080
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X24 LTE, X50 5G
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 20
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 5000 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1240 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Apr 2016
Announced
Jul 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
SM8150-AC
