HiSilicon Kirin 990 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We compared the version of 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 vs. the phone version 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 6.3W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990

722641

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +112%

1534534

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990

971

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +106%

2004

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990

3155

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +69%

5344

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990

691

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +403%

3481

HiSilicon Kirin 990

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

2860 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Adreno 740

600 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

16

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

1280

12

Max size

24

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.4816 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

AI

Da Vinci

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Nov 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8550-AB

HiSilicon Kirin 990

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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