Comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 955 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 [S]ave
| Attribute |  HiSilicon Kirin 955 × |  Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 × |
|---|---|---|
| General Information | ||
| Brand | HiSilicon | Qualcomm |
| Series | HiSilicon Kirin | Qualcomm Snapdragon |
| Model | HiSilicon Kirin 955 | Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | ||
| CPU Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 1.8 | 2.2 |
| CPU Threads | 8 | 8 |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | normal |
| Hyperthreading | - | - |
| Overclocking | - | - |
| A core | 4x Cortex-A72 | - |
| B core | 4x Cortex-A53 | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz) | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| Encryption | ||
| AES-NI | + | + |
| Hardware codec support | ||
| JPEG | Decode / Encode | Decode / Encode |
| h264 | Decode / Encode | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | Decode / Encode | Decode |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | Decode | No |
| VP8 | Decode / Encode | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | No | Decode |
| VP9 | No | No |
| AVC | No | No |
| Internal Graphics | ||
| GPU name | ARM Mali-T880 MP4 | Qualcomm Adreno 506 |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.9 | 0.65 |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 0.9 | 0.65 |
| Generation | 0 | 5 |
| DirectX Version | 11 | 11 |
| Execution units | 4 | 0 |
| Shader | 64 | 96 |
| Max. displays | 2 | 0 |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2016 | 2015 |
| Memory And PCIe | ||
| Memory type | LPDDR3LPDDR4 | LPDDR3-933 |
| ECC | - | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 1 |
| Technical details | ||
| Release date (year) | 2016 | 2016 |
| Technology (Nm) | 16 | 14 |
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| Architecture | ARM | ARM Cortex-A53 |
| Instruction set (ISA) | ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) | ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) |
| Benchmarks | ||
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 122 | 125 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 330 | 173 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 989 | 1,026 |
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