HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
1x 2.3 GHz – Kryo Prime (Cortex-A720)3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo Gold (Cortex-A720)4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo Silver (Cortex-A520)
Frequency
2360 MHz
2300 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9-A
Process
16 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
4
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Manufacturing
-
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
Adreno 810
GPU frequency
900 MHz
895 MHz
Execution units
2
-
Shading units
16
128
Vulkan version
1.0
1.3
OpenCL version
1.2
3.0
DirectX version
11
12.1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
933 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
-
25.6 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
No
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
3360 x 1600
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
1x 200MP
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- H.264- H.265- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 7
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 2900 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
Up to 1600 Mbps
Wi-Fi
4
6
Bluetooth
4.2
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Jan 2017
Feb 2025
Class
Mid range
Mid range
Model number
Hi6250
SM6650
Official page
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AI

NPU
-
Yes

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
103,952
684,046
Geekbench 6
215
1,130
Geekbench 6
810
3,013
FP32 (float)
57
458