Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 3 years late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +373%

990

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +247%

3179

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

2200 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

8

11 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

650 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

1

Execution units

16

96

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

0.1248 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

7.5 GB/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 24MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AIFF

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X9

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Oct 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8953 Pro

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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