Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.4224 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

367439

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +81%

665287

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

699

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +38%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

1817

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +74%

3176

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

422

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +63%

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

8 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

8

3 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 619

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

825 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

2

Execution units

16

128

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

0.4224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 686

NPU

Da Vinci

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

-

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X51

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 800 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

Oct 2019

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM4350

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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