Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 HiSilicon Kirin 659

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.148 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2360MHz)

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 +21%

126118

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 +159%

148

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

4

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

28 nm

Process

16 nm

1

Transistor count

4

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Adreno 330

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

578 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

1

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.148 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 2048

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Feb 2014

Announced

Jan 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8974 v3

Model number

Hi6250

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

Official page

-

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