Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
3000 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
8 MB
—
Process
4 nm
16 nm
TDP
6 W
5 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
64 KB
Transistor count
—
4
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 735
Mali-G71 MP8
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
1037 MHz
Execution units
2
8
Shading units
256
16
Vulkan version
1.3
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
11.3
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
1600 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
28.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
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Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
No
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2560 x 1600
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
2x 16MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
5.4
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Mar 2024
Oct 2016
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8635
Hi3660
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,490,645
278,916
Geekbench 6
2,019
408
Geekbench 6
5,570
1,385
FP32 (float)
1,689
265
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.