Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs HiSilicon Kirin 935

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

HiSilicon Kirin 935

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz HiSilicon Kirin 935 . 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 0.087 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Released 1 years and 4 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 935 Advantages

Lower TDP (7W vs 11W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +283%

334

HiSilicon Kirin 935

87

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 935

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

512 MB

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

1

11 W

TDP

7 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-T628 MP4

653 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

16

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.087 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.1

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

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 1200

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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. 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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Apr 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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