HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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HiSilicon Kirin 960 Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 . 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 10W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +262%

1481

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +173%

3794

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +549%

1720

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 660

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

8

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

512

4

Max size

24

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.72 TFLOPS

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

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 780

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 780

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K 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

X60

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

是

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 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

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

SM8350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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