Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960
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CPU
Architecture
8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
2000 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8-A
Process
14 nm
16 nm
Transistor count
2
4
TDP
5 W
5 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
—
64 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 506
Mali-G71 MP8
GPU frequency
650 MHz
1037 MHz
Execution units
1
8
Shading units
96
16
Vulkan version
1.0
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
11
11.3
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
933 MHz
1600 MHz
Bus
1x 32 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
7.46 Gbit/s
28.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon 546
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 546
No
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
1900 x 1200
2560 x 1600
Max camera resolution
1x 24MP, 2x 13MP
2x 16MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
5
Bluetooth
4.1
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Feb 2016
Oct 2016
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
MSM8953
Hi3660
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
156,131
278,916
FP32 (float)
124
265
Geekbench 6
—
408
Geekbench 6
—
1,385
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.