HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 4

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9020, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 4. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9020 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 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 7 Gen 4
956920
CPU351356299548
GPU288768300705
Memory443211190452
UX211533166215
NanoReview Score1294877956920
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 4
1352
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 4
4164
File Compression203.6 MB/s189 MB/s
HTML5 Browser144.6 pages/s115 pages/s
PDF Rendering162.6 MP/sec160.7 MP/sec
Background Blur16.1 frames/s15.2 frames/s
Photo Processing51.8 frames/s37.7 frames/s
Image Detection91.2 frames/s84.7 frames/s
HDR138.7 MP/sec128.2 MP/sec
Ray Tracing6.36 MP/sec5.12 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
- 1x 2.8 GHz – Kryo Prime (Cortex-720)
- 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo Gold (Cortex-720)
- 3x 1.84 GHz – Kryo Silver (Cortex-520)
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2500 2800
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
L2 cache 1 MB n/a
L3 Cache 10 MB 4 MB
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 722
Architecture Maleoon Adreno 700
GPU Frequency 840 MHz n/a
Execution Units 4 2
Shader Units 256 256
Total shader 1024 512
FLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS n/a
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
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 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 4200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s 33.6 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
- UFS 4.0
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2880x1800 pixels
Camera n/a 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
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 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed n/a Up to 4200 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 7
Bluetooth version 5.4 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced November, 2024 yr May, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename n/a SM7750-AB

Results

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