HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 4s 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 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 +37%

383772

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 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

-

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

-

8

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11.3

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 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 1200

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 84MP, 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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Jul 2024

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

SM4635

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2

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