HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G . 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 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2300MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.384 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +39%

389314

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +85%

756

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +28%

1783

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +44%

384

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

8 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 618

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

8

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.384 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

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

384 kHz/32 bit

-

Modem

X15

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Jan 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

SM7125

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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