Snapdragon 801 vs Kirin 930
We compared the 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (Adreno 330) with the newer 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 930 (Mali-T628 MP4) 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 801
- Developers optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Kirin
- Performs 92% better in floating-point computations
- 25% higher CPU clock speed (2500 vs 2000 MHz)
- Supports 16% higher memory bandwidth (14.9 against 12.8 GB/s)
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 930
- Announced 1-year and 1-month later
- Has 4 more cores
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 24747 | - |
| Memory | 26259 | - |
| UX | 11022 | - |
| Total score | 60872 | - |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 23.6 Mpixels/s | - |
| Face detection | 4.65 images/s | - |
| Speech recognition | 14.7 words/s | - |
| Machine learning | 9.8 images/s | - |
| Camera shooting | 3.76 images/s | - |
| HTML 5 | 532.8 Mnodes/s | - |
| SQLite | 135.1 Krows/s | - |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 801 and Kirin 930CPU
| Architecture | 4x 2.5 GHz – Krait | 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53 4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
| Cores | 4 | 8 |
| Frequency | 2500 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | - |
| Process | 28 nanometers | 28 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 1 billion | 1 billion |
| TDP | 6 W | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 330 | Mali-T628 MP4 |
| Architecture | Adreno 300 | Midgard |
| GPU frequency | 578 MHz | 600 MHz |
| Execution units | 1 | - |
| Shading units | 128 | - |
| FLOPS | 148 Gigaflops | 77 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| DirectX version | 11 | 11 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR3 | LPDDR3 |
| Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | 1600 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | 2x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 14.9 Gbit/s | 12.8 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 4 GB | 6 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | No |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.0 | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0 |
| Max display resolution | 2560 x 2048 | 1920 x 1200 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 21MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 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. 5 | LTE Cat. 6 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 50 Mbps | Up to 50 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 4.0 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou |
Info
| Announced | February 2014 | April 2015 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid range |
| Model number | MSM8974AC | - |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 official site | - |
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