HiSilicon Kirin 658 vs Marvell Armada PXA1908
HiSilicon Kirin 658
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The HiSilicon Kirin 658 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC for mid-range smartphones and tablets. It was announced early 2017 and features eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores. Four cores can be clocked with up to 1.7 GHz (power saving cores) and four with up to 2.35 GHz (performance cores). The difference to the older Kirin 650 and Kirin 655 SoCs is the higher clock speed of the performance cores (2.35 versus 2.1 and 2.0 GHz).
Furthermore, a ARM Mali-T830 MP2 graphics card (at 900 MHz with 40.8 GFLOPS), a 64-Bit LPDDR3 memory controller and a dual-sim capable LTE Cat. 6 (max. 300 MBit/s and GSM, WCDMA, UMTS, HSPA+) radio are integrated in the SoC. The processor performance can be compared with the older Kirin 930 and therefore sufficient for daily usage as browsing and non demanding apps. High-end SoCs with Cortex-A57 or A72 cores however should be noticeably faster. The SoC is produced in a modern 16nm FinFET process and is therefore very power efficient.
Marvell Armada PXA1908
► remove from comparisonThe Marvell Armada PXA1908 is an ARM based low end SoC for smartphones and tablets. The chip was announced in late 2014 and integrates four 64-Bit Cortex-A53 processor cores with up to 1.2 GHz. As a graphics card, the SoC integrates a Vivante GC7000UL. Furthermore, a LPDDR2/3 memory controller and a HSPA+/WCDMA/LTE Cat. 4 (max. 150 Mbit/s) radio is integrated. The SoC is manufactured in 28nm and also suited for small smartphones.
Model | HiSilicon Kirin 658 | Marvell Armada PXA1908 |
Codename | Cortex-A53 | Cortex-A53 |
Clock | 2350 MHz | 1200 MHz |
Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 4 / 4 |
Technology | 16 nm | 28 nm |
Features | ARMv8-ISA, Mali-T830 MP2, Dual SIM LTE (Cat. 6), LPDDR3 Memory Controller | Vivante GC7000UL GPU, HSPA+/WCDMA/LTE Cat. 4, LPDDR2/3 Memory Controller |
iGPU | ARM Mali-T830 MP2 (900 MHz) | Vivante GC7000UL |
Architecture | ARM | ARM |
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Manufacturer | www.marvell.com |
Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 658 → 100% n=2
Average Benchmarks Marvell Armada PXA1908 → 58% n=2

* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation