HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

Released 8 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +78%

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

156131

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +113%

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

124

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 506

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

8

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

96

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 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

-

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

1900 x 1200

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

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

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

MSM8953

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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