Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 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 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2150MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +8%

323

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +25%

1040

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +177%

319

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2150 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

624 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

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

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

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

-

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