Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5675 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2450MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +38%

415

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +46%

1519

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +393%

567

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2450 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

10 nm

Process

16 nm

3

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 540

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

739 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

1

Execution units

4

384

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.5675 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Hexagon 682

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 682

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

X16

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 16

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2016

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8998

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

Official page

-

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