Snapdragon 845 vs Kirin 990 (5G)
We compared two 8-core processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (with Adreno 630 graphics) and HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G) (Mali G76 MP16). 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
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
- Developers optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Kirin
- Better instruction set architecture
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
- Announced 1 year and 10 months later
- Has the smaller size of the transistor (7 versus 10 nm)
- Shows better (up to 40%) AnTuTu 8 score – 503K vs 360K
- Performs 23% better in floating-point computations
- Supports 7% higher memory bandwidth (31.78 against 29.8 GB/s)
Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
AnTuTu Benchmark 8
Specifications
CPU
| Architecture | 4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75) 4x 1.5 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Frequency | 2800 MHz | 2860 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 512 KB |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | - |
| Process | 10 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 3 billion | 8 billion |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 630 | Mali G76 MP16 |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | Bifrost |
| GPU frequency | 710 MHz | 700 MHz |
| Cores | - | 16 |
| Number of ALUs | 256 | - |
| FLOPS | 727 Gigaflops | 896 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 29.8 Gbit/s | 31.78 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 685 | Da Vinci |
| Storage type | UFS 2.1 | UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP | - |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 120FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VC-1 |
| Audio codecs | DSD 32-бит/384 кГц | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X20 LTE | Balong 5G |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 21 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Download speed | Up to 1200 Mbps | Up to 2300 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 1250 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou |
Info
| Announced | December 2017 | October 2019 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SDM845 | - |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 official site | HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G) official site |
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