HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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HiSilicon Kirin 960 Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 . 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 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1800MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +81%

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

153310

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +141%

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

169

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +81%

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

763

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +130%

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

115

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 506

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

8

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

96

4

Max size

4

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 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

Jun 2017

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3660

Model number

SDM450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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