Snapdragon 425 vs Kirin 658
We compared the 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 (Adreno 308) with the newer 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 658 (Mali-T830 MP2) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 425
- Developers optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Kirin
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 658
- Has 4 more cores
- Has a smaller size transistor (16 versus 28 nm)
- Higher GPU frequency (~80%)
- 68% higher CPU clock speed (2350 vs 1400 MHz)
- Performs 71% better in floating-point computations
- Announced 1-year and 1-month later
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksGeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 26.6 Mpixels/s | 64.35 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 3.52 images/s | 8.7 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 10.9 words/s | 14.3 words/s |
| Machine learning | 6.44 images/s | 9.71 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 2.3 images/s | 4.54 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 475.4 Mnodes/s | 1.26 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 134.1 Krows/s | 305.65 Krows/s |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 425 and Kirin 658CPU
| Architecture | 4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53 | 4x 2.35 GHz – Cortex-A53 4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
| Cores | 4 | 8 |
| Frequency | 1400 MHz | 2350 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | - |
| Process | 28 nanometers | 16 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 1 billion | 4 billion |
| TDP | 5 W | 5 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 308 | Mali-T830 MP2 |
| Architecture | Adreno 300 | Midgard |
| GPU frequency | 500 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | 2 |
| Shading units | 24 | 32 |
| FLOPS | 24 Gigaflops | 41 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| DirectX version | 11 | 11 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR3 | LPDDR3 |
| Memory frequency | 667 MHz | 933 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 16 Bit | 2x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 5.34 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 4 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | No |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1 | eMMC 5.1 |
| Max display resolution | 1280 x 800 | 1920 x 1200 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 16MP | 1x 21MP, 2x 13MP |
| Video capture | 1K at 30FPS | 1K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 1080p at 60FPS | 1080p at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265 | H.264, H.265, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X6 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 5 | LTE Cat. 6 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 75 Mbps | Up to 50 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou |
Info
| Announced | February 2016 | March 2017 |
| Class | Low end | Mid range |
| Model number | MSM8917 | - |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 official site | - |
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