HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
HiSilicon Kirin 659 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1536 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 659
+3%
215
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
208
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 659
+14%
810
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
705
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 659
57
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
+168%
153
CPU
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
2360 MHz
Frequency
1800 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
-
L2 cache
256 KB
16 nm
Process
28 nm
4
Transistor count
1
-
TDP
7 W
-
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU name
Adreno 510
900 MHz
GPU frequency
600 MHz
2
Execution units
1
16
Shading units
128
4
Max size
4
0.0576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.1536 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.0
1.2
OpenCL version
2.0
11
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR3
933 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
-
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon V56
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
1920 x 1200
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP, 2x 13MP
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
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X8
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
No
5G support
No
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 100 Mbps
4
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Jan 2017
Announced
Feb 2015
Mid range
Class
Mid range
Hi6250
Model number
MSM8976
