Our mobile chipset guide: The 2017 edition

07 February 2017
Some of you may know your Kirins and your Snapdragons, but others end up frustrated how to gauge the performance of a chipset inside the phone of their dreams based on the number of cores or the clock rate. This is where this article steps in. It's a guide to modern day mobile chipsets. It's meant as a long-term reference resource that you can always get back to when you are unsure which is which.

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AnonD-510098, 07 Feb 2017Qualcomm isnt all that anymore. Looking at the table, the K... moreNot really- those are just scores for synthetic multi-core CPU benchmark. Reality is far away from those numbers.

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    • Anony
    • vxe
    • 07 Feb 2017

    So SD625 is much faster than SD652/SD650??

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      • ICeltos
      • JwP
      • 07 Feb 2017

      I love the fact that faster and quantity of cores does not mean performance, it is all about how well develop it is. great article, keep writing :)

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        • minimale_ldz
        • nF4
        • 07 Feb 2017

        AnonD-510098, 07 Feb 2017Qualcomm isnt all that anymore. Looking at the table, the K... moreLike they said - those are only synthetic benchmark scores - not real-life performance indicators. On top of that, we're still waiting to see SD835.

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          • Homtom HT17 Pro
          • m5n
          • 07 Feb 2017

          I would love to know the name of that phone on the image!

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            • AnonD-510098
            • 3J9
            • 07 Feb 2017

            Qualcomm isnt all that anymore. Looking at the table, the Kirin 960 chipset is more powerful than anything available on the Android market right now.

            Kirin and Exynos chips are now better than Qualcomm and improving at a faster rate. Huawei and Samsung are doing the right thing.

            Xiaomi also seems to be making its own SoC which is good news.

            #EndTheMonoply.

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              • AnonD-458877
              • svY
              • 07 Feb 2017

              Just when I thought I knew a lot;
              thanks,I hope to see more stuff like this.
              (although I did not read it thoroughly)

                what about gpu

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                  • ChipGuy
                  • pqy
                  • 07 Feb 2017

                  Would have been a nice addition to also include GPU benchmarks of each chip. Why aren't Apple's products included in these charts ?

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                    • Maoui
                    • P@Y
                    • 07 Feb 2017

                    I don't really have any idea of what im reading about . xD

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                      • kris
                      • q{p
                      • 07 Feb 2017

                      You should be using Geekbench 4

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                        • Anonymous
                        • vIg
                        • 07 Feb 2017

                        Many, many thanks GSMArena!

                        But, as there is no end to wishes and desired, can you factor in power consumption against the scores :)

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                          • Saeid_A85
                          • B{$
                          • 07 Feb 2017

                          One of the best articles I read in GSMArena over the past years.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • P@Y
                            • 07 Feb 2017

                            Its very useful, please keep making articles like this, thanks gsmarena team:)

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                              • zodiacfml
                              • nCH
                              • 07 Feb 2017

                              That's a good one. High quality work there. I think, for the benefit of the masses, there should be a hierarchy of CPUs/SoCs showing an equivalent part from another maker e.g. (equivalent of a Snapdragon 820 in Kirin or Helios flavors).

                              There should be also useful information or way to commend chips such as the SD 625 as it should be more popular but not too expensive.

                              In the end, I would just like consumers to be more savvy and not just buy the prettiest or the expensive ones.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • UD{
                                • 07 Feb 2017

                                How long did it take to make this article? because its a long one. And thanks again GSMA.

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