HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Released 6 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 2860MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +4%

665287

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

636716

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

969

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +2%

996

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +23%

3176

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

2569

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +49%

1036

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2860 MHz

Frequency

2960 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

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 640

600 MHz

GPU frequency

675 MHz

16

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

384

12

Max size

16

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.0368 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, UFS 3.1

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

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Apr 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8150-AC

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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