HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2200MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3667 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +53%

428143

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +126%

926

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +53%

2128

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +38%

366

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

4 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 613

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

955 MHz

8

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

96

4

Max size

-

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3667 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X61

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 900 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Jun 2023

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

SM4450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Related SoC Comparison

1

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A18 Pro

2

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

3

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus

4

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

5

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

6

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3

7

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

8

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Unisoc T820

9

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 1580

10

HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429