HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 4320MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (42.7GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4320MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite +1000%

3070269

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite +1175%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)

2360 MHz

Frequency

4320 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.7-A

4 MB

L2 cache

24 MB

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 830

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

8

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

1536

4

Max size

24

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

3.0

11.3

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

5300 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

42.7 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2540

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X80

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

6.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Oct 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

SM8750-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

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