HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 . 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 0.2432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +27%

354293

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +16%

475

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +9%

1517

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +9%

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

243

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

6 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 610

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

8

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2432 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12.1

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)

Hexagon 686

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Mar 2023

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3660

Model number

SM6225-AD

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

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