HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2840MHz)

Released 10 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +12%

665287

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

592031

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +3%

969

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

939

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +11%

3176

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

2855

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +29%

898

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2860 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

8

Transistor count

6.7

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 640

600 MHz

GPU frequency

585 MHz

16

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

384

12

Max size

16

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.8985 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

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

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

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Dec 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8150

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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