HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs. 8 cores 4320MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (42.7GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4320MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

695853

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite +341%

3070269

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite +389%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)

2860 MHz

Frequency

4320 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.7-A

2 MB

L2 cache

24 MB

7 nm

Process

3 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 830

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

16

Execution units

-

36

Shading units

1536

12

Max size

24

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

3.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

5300 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

42.7 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2540

-

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Balong 765

Modem

Snapdragon X80

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 19

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

6.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Oct 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8750-AB

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

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