Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2840MHz)

Released 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

592031

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +12%

665287

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

939

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +3%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

2855

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +11%

3176

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +29%

898

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

2840 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.7

Transistor count

8

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 640

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

585 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

2

Execution units

16

384

Shading units

36

16

Max size

12

0.8985 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.13 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 690

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 20

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 5000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 1240 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Dec 2018

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8150

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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