HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2200MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +95%

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +51%

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

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

2x 32 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/s

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

3840 x 2160

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

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

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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