HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
2360 MHz
2860 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.2-A
Process
16 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
4
8
L1 cache
-
512 KB
L2 cache
-
0
TDP
-
6 W
Manufacturing
-
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
Mali-G76 MP16
GPU frequency
900 MHz
600 MHz
Execution units
2
16
Shading units
16
36
Vulkan version
1.0
1.3
OpenCL version
1.2
2.0
DirectX version
11
12

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
933 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
-
34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
No
Da Vinci
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
3360 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
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Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
H.264, H.265, VC-1
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 7
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 4600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
Up to 1250 Mbps
Wi-Fi
4
6
Bluetooth
4.2
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Announced
Jan 2017
Oct 2019
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
Hi6250
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Official page
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📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
103,952
665,287
Geekbench 6
215
-
Geekbench 6
810
-
FP32 (float)
57
691