HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9020, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9020 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 9020
1294877
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3115282
CPU351356679852
GPU2887681283493
Memory443211646515
UX211533505422
NanoReview Score12948773115282
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3393
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
11515
File Compression203.6 MB/s421.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser144.6 pages/s268 pages/s
PDF Rendering162.6 MP/sec300.8 MP/sec
Background Blur16.1 frames/s42.4 frames/s
Photo Processing51.8 frames/s115.6 frames/s
Image Detection91.2 frames/s353.8 frames/s
HDR138.7 MP/sec339.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing6.36 MP/sec14.1 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
- 2x 4.6 GHz -
- 6x 3.63 GHz -
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2500 4600
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 1 MB n/a
L3 Cache 10 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 920 n/a
Architecture Maleoon n/a
GPU Frequency 840 MHz n/a
Execution Units 4 n/a
Shader Units 256 n/a
Total shader 1024 n/a
FLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS 3990 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 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 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 6000 n/a
4G Support n/a LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
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 September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename n/a SM8850

Results

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

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