HiSilicon Kirin 8020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 2.285 GHz –3x 2.05 GHz –4x 1.3 GHz –
2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency
2285 MHz
4610 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
7 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
SMIC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
1792 KB
L2 cache
-
24 MB
L3 cache
-
8 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Maleoon 920
Adreno 840
GPU frequency
840 MHz
1200 MHz
Shading units
512
512
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
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Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
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AI
NPU
Da Vinci
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Video capture
4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
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
Max camera resolution
-
1x 320MP
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
Yes
Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
5.4
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 24
Info
Announced
May 2025
Sep 2025
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
-
SM8850
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
968,920
3,115,282
FP32 (float)
1,720
3,686
Geekbench 6
-
3,834
Geekbench 6
-
12,396