HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

969

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 +71%

1665

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

3176

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 +32%

4202

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

2860 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 730

600 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

16

Execution units

-

36

Shading units

-

12

Max size

24

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Da Vinci

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

Snapdragon X65

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

是

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

May 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

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