HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus . 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 0.4864 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +82%

665287

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

363972

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +11%

969

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

866

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +70%

3176

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

1859

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +42%

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

486

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2860 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

8 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 619

600 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

16

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

128

12

Max size

8

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4864 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

-

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 800 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SM4350-AC

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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