Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

HiSilicon Kirin 659

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 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 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2342MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +124%

233076

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +81%

391

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +1%

810

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +485%

334

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2342 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

4

11 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

653 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

1

Execution units

2

256

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 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

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

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

4

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jan 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

Hi6250

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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