HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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HiSilicon Kirin 820

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (31.78GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2360MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +294%

498005

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +340%

652

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

HiSilicon Kirin 820

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

2360 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

7 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP6

GPU name

Adreno 330

850 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

6

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

128

12

Max size

4

0.6528 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

31.78 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

Feb 2014

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8974 v3

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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