HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 960 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 . 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 5.3W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +301%

1118907

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +307%

1664

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +190%

4030

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +847%

2512

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2360 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

4 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 730

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

818 MHz

8

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

768

4

Max size

24

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.5128 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Snapdragon X65

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 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Dec 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

SM8450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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