Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
vs
HiSilicon Kirin 659
vs
SoC Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
and
HiSilicon Kirin 659
mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.
Advantages
- Higher Technology: 3 nm (3 nm vs 16 nm)
- Higher Frequency: 4600 MHz / 4740 MHz (4600 MHz / 4740 MHz vs 2360 MHz)
- Newer Launch Date: September 2025 (September 2025 vs January 2017)
Basic
Qualcomm
Label Name
HiSilicon
September 2025
Launch Date
January 2017
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Mid range
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
SM8850-AC/SM8850-5-AC
Model Name
Hi6250
2x 4.6 GHz, 6x 3.62 GHz
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
8
Cores
8
3 nm
Technology
16 nm
4600 MHz / 4740 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
-
Transistor count
4
GPU Specifications
Adreno 840
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
1200 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
3.6864 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0576 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
16
-
Execution units
2
3.0 FP
OpenCL version
1.2
-
Vulkan version
1.0
On-Device Display Support • 4K+ @ 120Hz • QHD+ @ 240Hz
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
-
DirectX version
11
Connectivity
-
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
X85 5G Modem-RF System
5G support
No
6.0
Bluetooth
4.2
7
Wi-Fi
4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Memory Specifications
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR3
up to 5300MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
2x 32 Bit
Miscellaneous
24 MB
L2 Cache
-
8 MB
L3 cache
-
- AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
UFS 4.1
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
4K video capture @120FPS
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
- H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP8 - VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
8K HDR video playback @60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
No
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
3757
+1647%
Kirin 659
215
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
12644
+1461%
Kirin 659
810
FP32 (float)
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
3612
+6128%
Kirin 659
58
AnTuTu 10
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
3269240
+3109%
Kirin 659
101873
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