HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 2.5 GHz – Krait
Frequency
2360 MHz
2500 MHz
Cores
8
4
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8-A
Process
16 nm
28 nm
Transistor count
4
1
L1 cache
—
128 KB
L2 cache
—
0
TDP
—
6 W
Manufacturing
—
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
Adreno 330
GPU frequency
900 MHz
578 MHz
Execution units
2
1
Shading units
16
128
Vulkan version
1.0
1.0
OpenCL version
1.2
1.2
DirectX version
11
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
933 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
—
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
No
No
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
eMMC 5.0
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
2560 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
1x 21MP
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
LTE Cat. 5
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Wi-Fi
4
5
Bluetooth
4.2
4.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Jan 2017
Feb 2014
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
Hi6250
MSM8974 v3
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
103,952
126,118
Geekbench 6
215
—
Geekbench 6
810
—
FP32 (float)
57
148
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.