HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs HiSilicon Kirin 950

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 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

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1152 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2360MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +73%

372

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +25%

1016

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +101%

115

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 950

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 nm

Process

16 nm

4

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

900 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

2

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Nov 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

Hi3650

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