Kirin 650 Vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

In recent year, we have seen several SoCs for the smartphones and there are lot new presented,like the powerful Qualcomm snapdragon, Samsung Exynos, Mediatek Helio and honor's Kirin. However, very few of them are using the 16nm manufacturing technology. Kirin 650 is one such SoC with a 16nm technology. Honor has launched its new flagship honor 5C with Kirin 650, which is the successor of Kirin 620. We also have the powerful and flagship-grade Qualcomm SD 820 SoC having 14nm technology. But before you look at the both Socs and decides which one performance is Good compare to other let's have a look at what these chips offer and what you should consider.

The SD 820(MSM8996) is a high-end SoC from Qualcomm which can be found in most of the flagships. The CPU is a quad-core with 2.2GHz Kyro cores(2 power-efficient cores and 2 high-performance cores). It combines with the Adreno 530 GPU and a LPDDR4 RAM. The Kirin 650 is a 16nm ARM-based Octa-core SoC. It is a middle-class 64 bit CPU clocked at 2.0 GHz( 8 cortex-A53 cores) along with a Mali-T830 MP2 GPU. The Chipset also supports LPDDR3 RAM and a dual-SIM LTE cat6 Modem. 

16nm Vs 14nm Manufacturing Technology

We all know that smaller is better. Smaller Manufacturing Technology leads to better efficiency and reliability. If we look back into a couple of years back, we saw Intel manufacturing 14nm CPU's named as Intel core M family. Now the same manufacturing technology is emerging into smartphones. The Kirin 650 uses a 16nm manufacturing technology with 8 power saving cortex-A53 cores. The Qualcomm SD 820 uses a14nm manufacturing technology yet has 2 Power saving cores only.

Octa-core Vs Quad-core

Kirin 650 is an Octa-core processor, that mean it can handle more processing Continuously as opposed to SD 820 which is a Quad-core. The Kirin 650 can outperform by a  margin if you have huge multi-tasking requirement.

Power Efficiency

Processors helps us in processing heavy apps or games nicely but the main thing is that the processor have power Efficiency or not. The Kirin 650 with its eight power efficient cores can give you a long battery performance whereas snapdragon 820 is high-performance processor CPU which can take as much battery when used at full Power. Kirin 650 is claimed to be an Ultra-saving COU eventually giving out a better battery backup. Kirin smartly reduces the usme of the battery by switching to the power-efficient cores without interrupting the users experience.