Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 HiSilicon Kirin 960

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +40%

408

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +84%

1385

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +73%

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

1800 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

6

Cores

8

256 KB

L2 cache

4 MB

28 nm

Process

16 nm

1

Transistor count

4

9 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 510

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

1

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.1536 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon V56

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon V56

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X8

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 100 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2015

Announced

Oct 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8956

Model number

Hi3660

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

Official page

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