HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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HiSilicon Kirin 950 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2342MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +5%

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +27%

1016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +190%

334

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2400 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 530

900 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

-

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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