Unisoc SC9863A vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Unisoc SC9863A HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Unisoc SC9863A 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

Unisoc SC9863A Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1152 TFLOPS vs 0.0704 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Unisoc SC9863A

165

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +81%

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Unisoc SC9863A

730

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +42%

1040

FP32 (float)

Unisoc SC9863A

70

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +64%

115

Unisoc SC9863A

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 1.2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

1600 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

28 nm

Process

16 nm

3 W

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GE8322

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

550 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

8

Execution units

4

8

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0704 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1800 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2160 x 1080

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 16MP, 2x 5MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2018

Announced

Apr 2016

Low end

Class

Flagship

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