HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 2.5 GHz – Krait
Frequency
2860 MHz
2500 MHz
Cores
8
4
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
512 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
7 nm
28 nm
Transistor count
8
1
TDP
6 W
6 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G76 MP16
Adreno 330
GPU frequency
600 MHz
578 MHz
Execution units
16
1
Shading units
36
128
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.2
DirectX version
12
11

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
No
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
eMMC 5.0
Max display resolution
3360 x 1440
2560 x 2048
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VC-1
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Max camera resolution
-
1x 21MP

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 19
LTE Cat. 5
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
5.0
4.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced
Oct 2019
Feb 2014
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Official page
Model number
-
MSM8974 v3

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
695,853
126,118
Geekbench 6
990
-
Geekbench 6
3,179
-
FP32 (float)
691
148