Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 HiSilicon Kirin 960

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 years and 5 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.2432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +27%

354293

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +16%

475

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +9%

1517

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

243

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +9%

265

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2800 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

6 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

4

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 610

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

950 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

1

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.2432 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 686

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.2

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

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

X11

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 390 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2023

Announced

Oct 2016

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM6225-AD

Model number

Hi3660

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Official page

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