Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 659
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
3300 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L3 cache
0
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Process
4 nm
16 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
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Transistor count
—
4
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 750
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU frequency
903 MHz
900 MHz
Execution units
2
2
Shading units
1536
16
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.2
DirectX version
12.1
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
77 Gbit/s
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Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
No
Storage type
UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1920 x 1200
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
1K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 7
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
4
Bluetooth
5.4
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Announced
Oct 2023
Jan 2017
Class
Flagship
Mid range
Model number
SM8650-AB
Hi6250
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,079,542
103,952
Geekbench 6
2,181
215
Geekbench 6
7,250
810
FP32 (float)
4,730
57
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.