Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

HiSilicon Kirin 950

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 . 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 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Released 9 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2342MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +5%

391

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +27%

1016

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +190%

334

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2342 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

2

11 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

653 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3343 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

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 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

2560 x 1600

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 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, VP8, VP9

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

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

Hi3650

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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