HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9020, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9020 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
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 888 Plus
963578
CPU351356266610
GPU288768304681
Memory443211174498
UX211533217789
NanoReview Score1294877963578
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
n/a
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
5462
Stabilityn/a99 %
Graphics Testn/a32 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
1550
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
3887
File Compression203.6 MB/s169.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser144.6 pages/s106.3 pages/s
PDF Rendering162.6 MP/sec140.4 MP/sec
Background Blur16.1 frames/s14.2 frames/s
Photo Processing51.8 frames/s36.2 frames/s
Image Detection91.2 frames/s87.3 frames/s
HDR138.7 MP/sec122.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing6.36 MP/sec4.56 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
- 1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
- 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Process SMIC Samsung
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2500 2995
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache n/a 512 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache 10 MB 4 MB
Process tech. 7 nm 5 nm
Transistor count n/a 10.3 billion
Power (TDP) n/a 8 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 920 Adreno 660
Architecture Maleoon Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 840 MHz 840 MHz
Execution Units 4 3
Shader Units 256 256
Total shader 1024 768
FLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS 1290.2 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 1.1
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 Hexagon 780

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 24 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 - UFS 3.0
- UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Camera n/a 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 6000 X60
4G Support n/a LTE Cat. 22
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed n/a Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed n/a Up to 3000 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 6
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced November, 2024 yr June, 2021 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename n/a SM8350-AC

Results

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