HiSilicon Kirin 9010 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9010, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9010 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
956941
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3115282
CPU326675679852
GPU1923321283493
Memory244416646515
UX193518505422
NanoReview Score9569413115282
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
1421
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3393
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
4323
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
11515
File Compression170.6 MB/s421.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser126.9 pages/s268 pages/s
PDF Rendering142.9 MP/sec300.8 MP/sec
Background Blur12.3 frames/s42.4 frames/s
Photo Processing43.8 frames/s115.6 frames/s
Image Detection81.5 frames/s353.8 frames/s
HDR120.2 MP/sec339.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.08 MP/sec14.1 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 4x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 2x 4.6 GHz -
- 6x 3.63 GHz -
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2300 4600
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 1 MB n/a
L3 Cache 8 MB 16 MB
Process tech. 7 nm 3 nm

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 910 n/a
Architecture Maleoon n/a
GPU Frequency 750 MHz n/a
Execution Units 4 n/a
Shader Units 256 n/a
Total shader 1024 n/a
FLOPS 1536 GFLOPS 3990 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.0 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Da Vinci Hexagon

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz n/a
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 16 GB n/a

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type - UFS 3.1
- UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.1
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels n/a
Camera n/a 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 5000 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 4600 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 7
Bluetooth version 5.2 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced April, 2024 yr September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename Hi36A0V121 SM8850

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider HiSilicon Kirin 9010 the clear winner in this comparison.

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