HiSilicon Kirin 910 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  HiSilicon Kirin 910 Qualcomm Snapdragon 429
• Family
  HiSilicon Kirin Qualcomm Snapdragon
• Generation
  1 4
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  1.6 GHz 1.95 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  1.6 GHz 1.95 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  1.6 GHz 1.95 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  0 11
• Execution units
  4 0
• Generation
  Utgard 5
• GPU Frequency
  530 MHz 500 MHz
• GPU name
  ARM Mali-450 MP4 Qualcomm Adreno 504
• GPU Turbo
  530 MHz 500 MHz
• Max. displays
  1 0
• Release date
  2012 Q2/2018
• Shader
  64 0
• Technology
  28nm 12 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Conflicting source values: Decode / Encode | No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 and HiSilicon Kirin 910. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 1
• Memory type
  LPDDR3 LPDDR3

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP HiSilicon Kirin 910 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by HiSilicon Kirin 910 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 429, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cortex-A9 Cortex-A53
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Part Number
  - SDM429
• Release date
  Q1/2014 Q3/2018
• Technology
  28 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  None None