HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

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Which processor is better? We compared HiSilicon Kirin 9020 with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus. Compare, analyze the specifications. Find out their scores in popular benchmarks (GeekBench 6 Single-Core, GeekBench 6 Multi-Core) and who is the winner?

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score

Kirin 9020

1598

Snapdragon 855 Plus

1030

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score

Kirin 9020

5114

Snapdragon 855 Plus

2861

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	2x 2.5 GHz – Taishan V121 6x 2.15 GHz – Taishan V120 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little	1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Number of cores	12	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8-A	ARMv8.2-A
Lithography	7 nm	7 nm
Number of transistors		6700 million
TDP		6 Watt
Neural Processing	HUAWEI Da Vinci	Qualcomm Hexagon 690

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 16 GB	up to 16 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5X	LPDDR4X
Memory frequency	4266 MHz	2133 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	4x16 bit

Graphics

GPU name	Maleoon 920	Adreno 640
GPU Architecture	Huawei Maleoon	Qualcomm Adreno 600
GPU frequency	840 MHz	675 MHz
Execution units	2	3
Shaders	1024	768
DirectX	12	12.1
OpenCL API	2.0	2.0
Vulkan API	1.3	1.1

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution	3840x2160	3840x2160
Max camera resolution		1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Max Video Capture	4K@60fps	4K@120fps
Video codec support	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP9	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9

Wireless

4G network	Yes	Yes
5G network	Yes	Yes
Peak Download Speed		5 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed		1.24 Gbps
Wi-Fi	7 (802.11be)	6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	5.4	5.0
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS NavIC QZSS	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS QZSS SBAS