Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9020 . 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)

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 11nm)

Released 4 years late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

685

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +135%

1616

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

1568

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +238%

5314

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

256 KB

L2 cache

5 MB

-

L3 cache

10 MB

11 nm

Process

7 nm

6 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

SMIC

Graphics

Adreno 612

GPU name

Maleoon 920

845 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

2

Execution units

4

96

Shading units

-

8

Max size

16

0.3244 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 685

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 192MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2020

Announced

Dec 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6150-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Official page

-

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