Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 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 8 Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.7308 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3300MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +629%

2181

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +597%

7250

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +4013%

4730

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520

Architecture

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

3300 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

16 nm

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 750

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

903 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

2

Execution units

4

1536

Shading units

16

24

Max size

4

4.7308 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

77 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Hexagon

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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

Snapdragon X75

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2023

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8650-AB

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Official page

-

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