HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . 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 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +185%

665287

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +147%

969

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +298%

3176

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +106%

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2860 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

7 nm

Process

14 nm

8

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 530

600 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

16

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

256

12

Max size

8

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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