Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +201%

665287

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +228%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

1088

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +191%

3176

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +275%

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU

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

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

8

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

720 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

1

Execution units

16

128

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Da Vinci

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

Oct 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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