HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 985

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 6.3W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 0.652 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2580MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 985

652

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +433%

3481

HiSilicon Kirin 985

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

2580 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6 W

TDP

6.3 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP8

GPU name

Adreno 740

700 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

8

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

1280

12

Max size

24

0.652 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.4816 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

是

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 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

Balong 5000

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

是

5G support

Yes

Up to 1277 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 177 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Apr 2020

Announced

Nov 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi6290

Model number

SM8550-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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