Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (77GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3300MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +34%

2181

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

1616

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +36%

7250

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

5314

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

CPU

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520

Architecture

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

3300 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

5 MB

0

L3 cache

10 MB

4 nm

Process

7 nm

TSMC

Manufacturing

SMIC

Graphics

Adreno 750

GPU name

Maleoon 920

903 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

2

Execution units

4

1536

Shading units

-

24

Max size

16

4.7308 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

77 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

UFS 4.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2023

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8650-AB

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Official page

-

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