HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 6 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +231%

990

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +205%

3179

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +500%

691

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2860 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

16 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

600 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

16

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

16

12

Max size

4

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Da Vinci

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Balong 765

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 19

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

Official page

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