HiSilicon Kirin 659
vs
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 4

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 659 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 4 nm (16 nm vs 4 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 2700 MHz (2360 MHz vs 2700 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: August 2025 (January 2017 vs August 2025)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
Qualcomm
January 2017
Launch Date
August 2025
SmartPhone Mid range
Platform
SmartPhone Mid range
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
Hi6250
Model Name
SM7635-AC
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
1x 2.7 GHz – Kryo Prime (Cortex-A720), 3x 2.4 GHz – Kryo Gold (Cortex-A720), 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo Silver (Cortex-A520)
8
Cores
8
16 nm
Technology
4 nm
2360 MHz
Frequency
2700 MHz
4
Transistor count
-

GPU Specifications

Mali-T830 MP2
GPU name
Adreno 810
900 MHz
GPU frequency
-
0.0576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
16
Shading units
128
2
Execution units
-
1.2
OpenCL version
3.0
1.0
Vulkan version
1.3
1920 x 1200
Max display resolution
2900 x 1300
11
DirectX version
12.1

Connectivity

Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 2900 Mbps
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
Yes
4.2
Bluetooth
5.4
4
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR5
933 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Memory Bus
2x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
1K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
1080p at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 659
215
Snapdragon 7s Gen 4
1190 +453%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 659
810
Snapdragon 7s Gen 4
3248 +301%
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 659
101873
Snapdragon 7s Gen 4
857250 +741%