Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 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 636 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1843 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 6 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1800MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +1%

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 +4%

1088

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 +60%

184

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

720 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

1

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

Apr 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

-

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