Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 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 480 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4224 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 4 years and 9 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +133%

699

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +74%

1817

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +266%

422

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

8 nm

Process

16 nm

3 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 619

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

825 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

2

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.4224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

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

Snapdragon X51

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 800 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

Apr 2016

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM4350

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

Official page

-

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