HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 9W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5675 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2450MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +21%

339384

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +1%

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +9%

1519

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +113%

567

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2450 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

10 nm

4

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 540

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

739 MHz

8

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

384

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5675 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 682

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X16

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 16

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Nov 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

MSM8998

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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