Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 HiSilicon Kirin 960

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2360MHz)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )

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

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +121%

278916

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +79%

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

Architecture

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

2500 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

4

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

28 nm

Process

16 nm

1

Transistor count

4

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 330

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

578 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

1

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.148 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 2048

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2014

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8974 v3

Model number

Hi3660

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

Official page

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