Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs HiSilicon Kirin 935
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz HiSilicon Kirin 935 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.087 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)
Released 7 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 935 Advantages
Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 2150MHz)
Lower TDP (7W vs 11W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
+266%
319
HiSilicon Kirin 935
87
CPU
2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
Architecture
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53
2150 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
4
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
1 MB
L2 cache
512 MB
14 nm
Process
28 nm
2
Transistor count
1
11 W
TDP
7 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Adreno 530
GPU name
Mali-T628 MP4
624 MHz
GPU frequency
680 MHz
1
Execution units
4
256
Shading units
16
8
Max size
8
0.3194 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.087 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
1.1
11
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR3
1866 MHz
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
29.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
12.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon 680
Neural processor (NPU)
No
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
X12
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.1
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Nov 2015
Announced
Apr 2015
Flagship
Class
Mid range
MSM8996
Model number
-
