HiSilicon Kirin 9000 5G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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Which processor is better? We compared HiSilicon Kirin 9000 5G with Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. Compare, analyze the specifications. Find out their scores in popular benchmarks (AnTuTu 10, GeekBench 6 Single-Core, GeekBench 6 Multi-Core) and who is the winner?

AnTuTu 10

Total Score

Kirin 9000 5G

762886

Snapdragon 820

241750

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score

Kirin 9000 5G

1062

Snapdragon 820

318

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score

Kirin 9000 5G

3724

Snapdragon 820

798

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77 3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77 4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55	2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo 2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo
Number of cores	8	4
Instruction Set	ARMv8.2-A	ARMv8-A
Lithography	5 nm	14 nm
Number of transistors	15300 million
TDP	6 Watt	11 Watt
Neural Processing	Ascend Lite (2x) + Ascend Tiny (1x), HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture 2.0	Qualcomm Hexagon 680

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 16 GB	up to 8 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5	LPDDR4
Memory frequency	2750 MHz	1866 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	2x32 bit

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 3.1

UFS 2.0

Graphics

GPU name	Mali-G78 MP24	Adreno 530
GPU Architecture	Mali Valhall	Qualcomm Adreno 500
GPU frequency	760 MHz	620 MHz
Execution units	24	2
Shaders	384	256
DirectX	12	11.2
OpenCL API	2.1	2.0
OpenGL API	ES 3.2	ES 3.2
Vulkan API	1.2	1.0

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution	3840x2160	3840x2160
Max camera resolution		1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
Max Video Capture	4K@60fps	4K@30fps
Video codec support	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC)

Wireless

4G network	Yes	Yes
5G network	Yes	Yes
Peak Download Speed	4.6 Gbps	0.6 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed	2.5 Gbps	0.15 Gbps
Wi-Fi	6 (802.11ax)	5 (802.11ac)
Bluetooth	5.2	4.1
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS NavIC	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS QZSS SBAS