HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 . 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 2300MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4301 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 5W)

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 +79%

500600

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 +62%

430

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 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

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 619

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

8

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

12

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4301 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

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

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1500 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

Jun 2024

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

SM6375-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3

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