HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (31.78GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +78%

498005

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +146%

652

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

HiSilicon Kirin 820

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

7 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

4

5 W

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP6

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

850 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

6

Execution units

8

64

Shading units

16

12

Max size

4

0.6528 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

31.78 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

Oct 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3660

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