HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Score

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

CPU

1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan
3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan
4x 1.6 GHz – TaiShan

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

5 MB

L2 cache

-

10 MB

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

5 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Maleoon 920

GPU name

Adreno 308

840 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

4

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

24

16

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.024 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

667 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

-

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

X6

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 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

MSM8917

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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