HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V1216x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V1204x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
Frequency
2500 MHz
3300 MHz
Cores
12
10
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache
5 MB
-
L3 cache
10 MB
-
Process
7 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
SMIC
Samsung

Graphics

GPU name
Maleoon 920
-
GPU frequency
840 MHz
1300 MHz
Execution units
4
-
Shading units
512
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
5333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
76.8 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
Da Vinci
Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
-
Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
3840 x 2160
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1
Audio codecs
- AAC- 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
-
Upload speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
5.4
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Nov 2024
Aug 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
-
S5E9955

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
1,248,520
2,519,784
Geekbench 6
1,603
2,648
Geekbench 6
5,129
9,881