HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2432 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 16nm)
Released 6 years and 2 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 659
103952
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
+240%
354293
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 659
215
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
+120%
475
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 659
810
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
+87%
1517
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 659
57
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
+326%
243
CPU
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
2360 MHz
Frequency
2800 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
16 nm
Process
6 nm
4
Transistor count
-
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU name
Adreno 610
900 MHz
GPU frequency
950 MHz
2
Execution units
1
16
Shading units
128
4
Max size
8
0.0576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2432 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.1
1.2
OpenCL version
2.0
11
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR4X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
-
Max bandwidth
17 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 686
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
UFS 2.2
1920 x 1200
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
1K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X11
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
No
5G support
No
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 390 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
4
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Jan 2017
Announced
Mar 2023
Mid range
Class
Low end
Hi6250
Model number
SM6225-AD
