HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G . 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 25.6GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Advantages

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G +140%

981

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G +101%

2787

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

6 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 642L

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

490 MHz

8

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

384

4

Max size

16

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 770

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 36MP

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, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X53

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

是

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 210 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

May 2021

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

SM7325

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

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