HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A763x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 3.8 GHz –6x 3.32 GHz –
Frequency
2360 MHz
3800 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
7 nm
3 nm
TDP
5 W
-
Manufacturing
-
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G57 MP6
Adreno 829
GPU frequency
850 MHz
1200 MHz
Execution units
6
-
Shading units
64
512
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
4800 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
31.78 Gbit/s
76.8 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
3840 x 2540
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- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 4600 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
7
Bluetooth
5.1
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Mar 2020
Nov 2025
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
-
SM8845
Official page
-

AI

NPU
-
Hexagon

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
498,005
3,561,559
FP32 (float)
652
2,457
Geekbench 6
-
2,749
Geekbench 6
-
9,860