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HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 vs HiSilicon Kirin 930

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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The HiSilicon Kirin 659 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC for mid-range smartphones and tablets. It was announced mid 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 2.36 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). The slightly older Kirin 658 is very similar. The 659 is in our benchmarks around 4% faster than the 658 and offers a better LTE radio (Cat. 13).

Furthermore, a ARM Mali-T830 MP2 graphics card (at >=900 MHz), 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.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 (SD435) is a lower mainstream SoC for (Android based) smartphones and tablets. Contrary to the Snapdragon 630, it is still manufactured in a 28-nm process and also consists of an octa-core CPU part with ARM Cortex-A53 cores. However, they are only clocked at up to 1.4 GHz. The integrated X9 LTE modem supports Cat. 4 with maximum transfer rates of 300 Mbps (downstream) and 100 Mbps (upstream). The SoC also includes an Adreno 505 GPU with support for Vulkan and OpenGL ES 3.1. WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.1 are supported as well. The memory controller supports LPDDR3 clocked at 800 MHz (so probably dual-channel DDRL-1600). The main difference to the Snapdragon 430 is the faster LTE modem.

HiSilicon Kirin 930

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The HiSilicon Kirin 930 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC (system-on-a-chip) for smartphones and tablets. It was launched in the first half of 2015. It integrates two quad-core clusters of Cortex-A53 cores (big.LITTLE). The performance cluster clocks at up to 2 GHz, the power saving cluster at up to 1.5 GHz. Furthermore, the SoC integrates a ARM Mali-T628 MP4 graphics card and LTE Cat. 6 modem. The SoC is manufactured in 28nm and thanks to the small Cortex-A53 cores also suited for smaller smartphones.

ModelHiSilicon Kirin 659Qualcomm Snapdragon 435HiSilicon Kirin 930
Series Qualcomm Snapdragon
CodenameCortex-A53Cortex-A53Cortex-A53
Series: Cortex-A53
JLQ JR5101.5 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9352.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 659 « 2.36 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6582.35 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6552.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6502 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9302 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6201.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT81611.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Marvell Armada PXA19081.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6302.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6262.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6252 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4392 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4501.8 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4292 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 MSM89521.5 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v21.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM89391.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM89361.7 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 « 1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937)1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 MSM89291.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 (MSM8917)1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM89161.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 APQ80161.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
JLQ JR5101.5 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9352.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6592.36 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6582.35 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6552.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6502 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 930 « 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6201.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT81611.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Marvell Armada PXA19081.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Clock2360 MHz1400 MHz2000 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 88 / 8
Technology16 nm28 nm28 nm
FeaturesARMv8-ISA, Mali-T830 MP2, Dual SIM LTE (Cat. 6), LPDDR3 Memory ControllerAdreno 505 GPU, 802.11ac WLAN, Bluetooth 4.1, LTE Cat. 7, Dual-Channel LPDDR3-1600 Memory ControllerARM Mali-T628 MP4 GPU, 4x Cortex-A53e (2.0 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.5 GHz, big.LITTLE), LTE Cat. 6, 2x 32 Bit LPDDR3-1600 Memory Controller
iGPUARM Mali-T830 MP2Qualcomm Adreno 505ARM Mali-T628 MP4 ( - 600 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 435 +
7935 Points (6%)
9337 Points (8%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
12599 Points (10%)
61%
435 +
7745 Points (6%)
min: 9404     avg: 9487     median: 9499 (8%)     max: 9557 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 11780     avg: 13618     median: 13379.5 (11%)     max: 14930 Points
67%
435 +
min: 7095     avg: 8887     median: 9015.5 (8%)     max: 9345 Points
min: 10447     avg: 10528     median: 10494 (9%)     max: 10643 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1632     avg: 1675     median: 1685 (20%)     max: 1717 Points
69%
1 435 +
min: 1028     avg: 1199     median: 1167.5 (14%)     max: 1352 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1354     avg: 1625     median: 1685 (19%)     max: 1741 Points
68%
1 435 +
min: 1002     avg: 1182     median: 1152 (13%)     max: 1382 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 869     avg: 919     median: 926.5 (9%)     max: 946 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3316     avg: 3608     median: 3680.5 (4%)     max: 3805 Points
70%
1 435 +
min: 2210     avg: 2610     median: 2582 (3%)     max: 2889 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 887     avg: 888     median: 888 (12%)     max: 889 Points
65%
1 435 +
577 Points (8%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3438     avg: 3473     median: 3473 (8%)     max: 3508 Points
66%
1 435 +
2308 Points (6%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
3508 Points (5%)
min: 3458     avg: 3498     median: 3497.5 (5%)     max: 3537 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
876 Points (13%)
min: 864     avg: 873     median: 872.5 (13%)     max: 881 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 2955     avg: 3212     median: 3211.5 (6%)     max: 3468 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 698     avg: 761     median: 760.5 (15%)     max: 823 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
968 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
2829 Points (26%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
5944 Points (12%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
3298 Points (7%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
3897 Points (10%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 272     avg: 272.3     median: 272.3 (9%)     max: 272.5 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 121     avg: 121.5     median: 121.5 (12%)     max: 122 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 8684     avg: 9440     median: 9271 (11%)     max: 10788 ms
95%
435 +
min: 11007     avg: 12667     median: 12750 (15%)     max: 13586 ms
min: 9903     avg: 11085     median: 11544 (13%)     max: 11808 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
1173 ms (13%)
90%
435 +
1979 ms (22%)
min: 1021     avg: 1093     median: 1092.5 (12%)     max: 1164 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 4191     avg: 4947     median: 4980 (4%)     max: 5471 Points
64%
435 +
min: 2689     avg: 3112     median: 3209 (3%)     max: 3314 Points
min: 3866     avg: 4211     median: 4084 (4%)     max: 4682 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 34     avg: 38.7     median: 40 (8%)     max: 42 Points
68%
1 435 +
27 Points (6%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
1254 Points (34%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
2044 Points (46%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
2756 Points (36%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
13277 points (31%)
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
min: 45927     avg: 47313     median: 47313 (48%)     max: 48699 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 62810     avg: 65730     median: 66608 (23%)     max: 68232 Points
68%
435 +
min: 42643     avg: 44884     median: 45572 (16%)     max: 46814 Points
52322 Points (18%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 7947     avg: 8633     median: 8430.5 (26%)     max: 9656 Points
54%
1 435 +
min: 4213     avg: 4532     median: 4581.5 (14%)     max: 4750 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 21484     avg: 23751     median: 24193.5 (30%)     max: 24268 Points
66%
1 435 +
min: 14261     avg: 15880     median: 16055.5 (20%)     max: 17146 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 12982     avg: 13331     median: 13167.5 (4%)     max: 14340 Points
73%
1 435 +
min: 9541     avg: 9568     median: 9563 (3%)     max: 9605 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 39451     avg: 41305     median: 41643.5 (25%)     max: 41874 Points
67%
1 435 +
min: 27075     avg: 27665     median: 27740 (17%)     max: 28105 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 81992     avg: 87019     median: 87511.5 (15%)     max: 89639 Points
65%
1 435 +
min: 56672     avg: 57644     median: 57289 (10%)     max: 59326 Points
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
1694 Iter./s (52%)
1338 Iter./s (41%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
20418 Iter./s (67%)
20284 Iter./s (67%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 122441     avg: 127602     median: 127602 (17%)     max: 132762 Points
64%
435 +
81667 Points (11%)
125047 Points (16%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
min: 2413     avg: 2626     median: 2635 (14%)     max: 2819 Points
71%
1 435 +
min: 1646     avg: 1876     median: 1875.5 (10%)     max: 2105 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
min: 5970     avg: 7032     median: 6957 (15%)     max: 8244 Points
99%
1 435 +
min: 4303     avg: 6883     median: 6882.5 (15%)     max: 9462 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
min: 4615     avg: 4805     median: 4834.5 (32%)     max: 4911 Points
77%
1 435 +
min: 3538     avg: 3737     median: 3710 (24%)     max: 3928 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 5704     avg: 5956     median: 5887 (29%)     max: 6252 Points
82%
435 +
min: 4316     avg: 4876     median: 4814.5 (24%)     max: 5438 Points
min: 4358     avg: 4432     median: 4458 (22%)     max: 4479 Points

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 659 → 100% n=8

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 → 74% n=8

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 930 → 86% n=8

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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