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HiSilicon Kirin 990
vs
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

HiSilicon Kirin 990
vs
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 990 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

HiSilicon Kirin 990
HiSilicon Kirin 990
HiSilicon Kirin 990
  • Higher Frequency: 2860 MHz (2860 MHz vs 2840 MHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
  • Higher Technology: 5 nm (7 nm vs 5 nm)
  • Newer Launch Date: December 2020 (October 2019 vs December 2020)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
Qualcomm
October 2019
Launch Date
December 2020
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Kirin 990
Model Name
SM8350
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
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)
8
Cores
8
7 nm
Technology
5 nm
2860 MHz
Frequency
2840 MHz
8
Transistor count
-

GPU Specifications

Mali-G76 MP16
GPU name
Adreno 660
600 MHz
GPU frequency
840 MHz
0.6912 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.72 TFLOPS
36
Shading units
512
16
Execution units
2
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
3360 x 1440
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
Yes
5G support
-
5.0
Bluetooth
5.2
6
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

Da Vinci
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 780
2 MB
L2 Cache
1 MB
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, VC-1
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS
6 W
TDP
10 W
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 990
971
Snapdragon 888
1481 +53%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 990
3155
Snapdragon 888
3794 +20%
FP32 (float)
Kirin 990
705
Snapdragon 888
1754 +149%