HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Samsung Exynos 9825

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9020, vs Samsung Exynos 9825. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9020 and Samsung Exynos 9825
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
Samsung Exynos 9825
661017
CPU351356162639
GPU288768210971
Memory443211155095
UX211533132258
NanoReview Score1294877661017
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
n/a
Samsung Exynos 9825
3377
Stabilityn/a97 %
Graphics Testn/a20 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Samsung Exynos 9825
669
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
Samsung Exynos 9825
2354
File Compression203.6 MB/s111.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser144.6 pages/s68.2 pages/s
PDF Rendering162.6 MP/sec66.5 MP/sec
Background Blur16.1 frames/s7.44 frames/s
Photo Processing51.8 frames/s21 frames/s
Image Detection91.2 frames/s47.6 frames/s
HDR138.7 MP/sec80.8 MP/sec
Ray Tracing6.36 MP/sec2.67 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
- 2/2.73 (M4)
- 2/2.4 (Cortex-A75)
- 4/1.95 (Cortex-A55)
Process SMIC Samsung
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2500 2730
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
L2 cache 1 MB 2 MB
L3 Cache 10 MB n/a
Process tech. 7 nm 7 nm
Transistor count n/a 8.5 billion

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 920 Mali-G76 MP12
Architecture Maleoon Bifrost 3rd gen
GPU Frequency 840 MHz 754 MHz
Execution Units 4 12
Shader Units 256 24
Total shader 1024 288
FLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS 434.3 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
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 Yes
GPU Frequency n/a 1.86 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s 33.4 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 12 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 - UFS 2.1
- UFS 3.0
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 3840x2400 pixels
Camera n/a 1x32 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 6000 Exynos 5100
4G Support n/a LTE Cat. 20
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed n/a Up to 2000 MB/s
Upload speed n/a Up to 316 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 6
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced November, 2024 yr August, 2019 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename n/a S5E9825

Results

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

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