Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 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 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +313%

1616

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +566%

5314

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2342 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

5 MB

-

L3 cache

10 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

SMIC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Maleoon 920

653 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

-

8

Max size

16

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

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

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

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

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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