Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 HiSilicon Kirin 9000

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3316 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3130MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +289%

907784

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +223%

1266

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +342%

3529

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +597%

2331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

3130 MHz

4

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

15.3

11 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP24

653 MHz

GPU frequency

759 MHz

1

Execution units

24

256

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.3316 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

AI accelerator

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

AI accelerator

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

4.1

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Oct 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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