HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9020, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9020 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
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 9020
1294877
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
757902
CPU351356258336
GPU288768183669
Memory443211138904
UX211533176993
NanoReview Score1294877757902
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
1091
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
3085
File Compression203.6 MB/s154.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser144.6 pages/s81.6 pages/s
PDF Rendering162.6 MP/sec109.9 MP/sec
Background Blur16.1 frames/s11.7 frames/s
Photo Processing51.8 frames/s25 frames/s
Image Detection91.2 frames/s55.8 frames/s
HDR138.7 MP/sec93 MP/sec
Ray Tracing6.36 MP/sec4.14 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
- 1x 2.3 GHz – Kryo Prime (Cortex-A720)
- 3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo Gold (Cortex-A720)
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo Silver (Cortex-A520)
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2500 2300
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
L2 cache 1 MB n/a
L3 Cache 10 MB n/a
Process tech. 7 nm 4 nm

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 920 Adreno 810
Architecture Maleoon Adreno 800
GPU Frequency 840 MHz 895 MHz
Execution Units 4 2
Shader Units 256 128
Total shader 1024 256
FLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS 458.2 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
DirectX 12 12.1

AI Acceleration

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

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 - UFS 2.2
- UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 3360x1600 pixels
Camera n/a 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 6000 Qualcomm X62 5G
4G Support n/a LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed n/a Up to 2900 MB/s
Upload speed n/a Up to 1600 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 6
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced November, 2024 yr February, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename n/a SM6650

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider HiSilicon Kirin 9020 the clear winner in this comparison.

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