Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs HiSilicon Kirin 710A

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 HiSilicon Kirin 710A

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz HiSilicon Kirin 710A . 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 0.128 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2000MHz)

HiSilicon Kirin 710A Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

234102

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +21%

391

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

321

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

HiSilicon Kirin 710A +42%

1135

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +160%

334

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

128

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

4

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

512 KB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G51 MP4

653 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

16

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.128 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2340 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 40MP, 2x 24MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jun 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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