HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A763x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
Frequency
2360 MHz
4210 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
7 nm
3 nm
TDP
5 W
-
L3 cache
-
16 MB
Manufacturing
-
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G57 MP6
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
GPU frequency
850 MHz
1750 MHz
Execution units
6
-
Shading units
64
128
Vulkan version
1.3
1.4
OpenCL version
2.0
3.0
DirectX version
12
12.1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
5333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
31.78 Gbit/s
85.3 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
-
Storage type
UFS 2.1
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
3360 x 1440
-
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 4600 Mbps
Up to 10700 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
6
7
Bluetooth
5.1
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Mar 2020
Sep 2025
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Official page
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AI

NPU
-
MediaTek NPU 990
Theoretical Performance
-
100 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
498,005
4,011,932
FP32 (float)
652
5,376
Geekbench 6
-
3,781
Geekbench 6
-
12,189