Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
vs
HiSilicon Kirin 960

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 and HiSilicon Kirin 960 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 5 nm (5 nm vs 16 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 2840 MHz (2840 MHz vs 2360 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: December 2020 (December 2020 vs October 2016)

Basic

Qualcomm
Label Name
HiSilicon
December 2020
Launch Date
October 2016
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
SM8350
Model Name
Hi3660
1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
8
Cores
8
5 nm
Technology
16 nm
2840 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
-
Transistor count
4

GPU Specifications

Adreno 660
GPU name
Mali-G71 MP8
840 MHz
GPU frequency
1037 MHz
1.72 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2655 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
16
2
Execution units
8
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
12
DirectX version
11.3

Connectivity

Up to 2500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
-
5G support
No
5.2
Bluetooth
4.2
6
Wi-Fi
5
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
2x 32 Bit

Miscellaneous

1 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
Max camera resolution
2x 16MP
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
8K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
10 W
TDP
5 W
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
Hexagon 780
Neural processor (NPU)
No

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 888
1481 +263%
Kirin 960
408
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 888
3794 +174%
Kirin 960
1385
FP32 (float)
Snapdragon 888
1754 +575%
Kirin 960
260