HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.0288 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +2367%

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

28

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2860 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

12 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 504

600 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

16

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

32

12

Max size

4

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0288 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

1600 x 900

-

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Jun 2018

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SDM429

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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