HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 22GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2200MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +14%

665287

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

582743

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +2%

969

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

946

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +15%

3176

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

2750

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2860 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

4 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 710

600 MHz

GPU frequency

-

16

Execution units

-

36

Shading units

-

12

Max size

8

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

22 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.2

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

X62

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2900 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM6450

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

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