HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 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
L1 cache
64 KB
1792 KB
L2 cache
0
24 MB
Process
16 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4
-
TDP
5 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
-
8 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G71 MP8
Adreno 840
GPU frequency
1037 MHz
1200 MHz
Execution units
8
-
Shading units
16
512
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11.3
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
-
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
28.8 Gbit/s
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
No
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
-
Max camera resolution
2x 16MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- 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. 12
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
4.2
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Oct 2016
Sep 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
Hi3660
SM8850
AI
NPU
-
Hexagon
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
278,916
3,115,282
Geekbench 6
408
3,834
Geekbench 6
1,385
12,396
FP32 (float)
265
3,686