HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.024 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +104%

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

136588

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +1004%

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

24

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

28 nm

4

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 308

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

8

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

24

4

Max size

4

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.024 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11.3

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

667 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3660

Model number

MSM8917

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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