HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +149%

695853

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +142%

990

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +129%

3179

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +160%

691

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

8

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

8

Execution units

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

12

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

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, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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