Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1800MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

169

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +76%

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

763

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +36%

1040

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

115

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

1800 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

-

3 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

600 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

1

Execution units

4

96

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

-

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

7.46 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Hexagon 546

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

X9

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2017

Announced

Apr 2016

Low end

Class

Flagship

SDM450

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

Official page

-

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