HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +232%

969

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +323%

3176

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +351%

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2860 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

7 nm

Process

28 nm

8

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 510

600 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

16

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

128

12

Max size

4

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 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

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

-

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

X8

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Feb 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MSM8956

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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