Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +233%

996

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +147%

2569

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +800%

1036

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2960 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

16 nm

6.7

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 640

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

675 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

2

Execution units

4

384

Shading units

16

Max size

4

1.0368 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.13 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Hexagon 690

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 690

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 20

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 5000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 1240 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2019

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8150-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Official page

-

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