Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 4 nm (4 nm vs 7 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 3000 MHz (3000 MHz vs 2860 MHz)
  • Higher Max Bandwidth: 51.2 Gbit/s (51.2 Gbit/s vs 34.1 Gbit/s)
  • Newer Launch Date: December 2021 (December 2021 vs October 2019)

Basic

Qualcomm
Label Name
HiSilicon
December 2021
Launch Date
October 2019
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
SM8450
Model Name
Kirin 990 5G
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2 3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
Architecture
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
8
Cores
8
4 nm
Technology
7 nm
3000 MHz
Frequency
2860 MHz
-
Transistor count
8

GPU Specifications

Adreno 730
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP16
818 MHz
GPU frequency
600 MHz
2.5128 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.6912 TFLOPS
768
Shading units
36
2
Execution units
16
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
3360 x 1440
12.1
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
5.3
Bluetooth
5.0
6
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max Bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s

Miscellaneous

Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
1 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
-
UFS 3.1
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VC-1
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
5.3 W
TDP
6 W
ARMv9-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1664 +72%
Kirin 990 5G
969
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
4030 +27%
Kirin 990 5G
3176
FP32 (float)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
2462 +249%
Kirin 990 5G
705
AnTuTu 10
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1096529 +55%
Kirin 990 5G
707196