HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9020 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 9020 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Score

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

2500 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

5 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

10 MB

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

6 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Maleoon 920

GPU name

Adreno 330

840 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

4

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

128

16

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

-

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

-

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 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Feb 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8974 v3

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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