Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 8020

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
1x 2.285 GHz –3x 2.05 GHz –4x 1.3 GHz –
Frequency
3300 MHz
2285 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L3 cache
0
-
Process
4 nm
7 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
SMIC

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 750
Maleoon 920
GPU frequency
903 MHz
840 MHz
Execution units
2
-
Shading units
1536
512
Vulkan version
1.3
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
12

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
77 Gbit/s
68.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
-
Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
-
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
- H.264- H.265- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
-
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
5.4
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Oct 2023
May 2025
Class
Flagship
Mid range
Model number
SM8650-AB
-
Official page
-

AI

NPU
-
Da Vinci

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
2,079,542
968,920
Geekbench 6
2,181
-
Geekbench 6
7,250
-
FP32 (float)
4,730
1,720