HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency
2360 MHz
4610 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
16 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4
-
L1 cache
-
1792 KB
L2 cache
-
24 MB
L3 cache
-
8 MB
Manufacturing
-
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
Adreno 840
GPU frequency
900 MHz
1200 MHz
Execution units
2
-
Shading units
16
512
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
933 MHz
-
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
No
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
-
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
4
7
Bluetooth
4.2
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Jan 2017
Sep 2025
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
Hi6250
SM8850
AI
NPU
-
Hexagon
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
103,952
3,115,282
Geekbench 6
215
3,834
Geekbench 6
810
12,396
FP32 (float)
57
3,686