HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.652 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2580MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 985 +1043%

652

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

HiSilicon Kirin 985

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

CPU

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2580 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

7 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

4

6 W

TDP

-

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP8

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

700 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

8

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

16

12

Max size

4

0.652 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

是

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

是

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

是

5G support

No

Up to 1277 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 177 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Apr 2020

Announced

Jan 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi6290

Model number

Hi6250

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