Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 4320MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 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 8 Elite Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4320MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years and 6 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite +2838%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)

Architecture

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

4320 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.7-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

24 MB

L2 cache

-

3 nm

Process

16 nm

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 830

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1100 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

-

Execution units

4

1536

Shading units

16

24

Max size

4

3.3792 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

3.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4

5300 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

42.7 GB/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Hexagon

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2540

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Audio codecs

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

Snapdragon X80

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

6.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2024

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8750-AB

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

Official page

-

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