Comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 620 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 617

Attribute	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 ×	HiSilicon Kirin 620 ×
General Information
Brand	Qualcomm	HiSilicon
Series	Qualcomm Snapdragon	HiSilicon Kirin
Model	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617	HiSilicon Kirin 620
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	4
Frequency (GHz)	1.2	1.2
CPU Threads	8	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	4x Cortex-A53	-
B core	4x Cortex-A53	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	1.5	1.2
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.2
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	1.2	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	No
h264	Decode / Encode	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Qualcomm Adreno 405	ARM Mali-450 MP4
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.55	0.53
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	0.55	0.53
Generation	4	0
DirectX Version	11	0
Execution units	0	4
Shader	48	64
Max. displays	0	1
GPU Release date (year)	2014	2012
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR3-933	LPDDR3
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2015	2015
Technology (Nm)	28	28
Virtualization	none	none
Architecture	ARM Cortex-A53	Cortex-A53
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	53	32
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	112	102
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	428	505