HiSilicon Kirin 9010 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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HiSilicon Kirin 9010 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 12 cores 2300MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9010 vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9010 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2300MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 9010 +320%

979511

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2300 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

12

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

11 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Maleoon 910

GPU name

Adreno 530

750 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

-

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

256

16

Max size

8

-

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Da Vinci

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2024

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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