Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs HiSilicon Kirin 8020
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs. 8 cores 2285MHz HiSilicon Kirin 8020 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
HiSilicon Kirin 8020 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7203 TFLOPS vs 0.1536 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2285MHz vs 1800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
0.153 TFLOPS
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
+1024%
1.72 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
1x 2.285 GHz –
3x 2.05 GHz –
4x 1.3 GHz –
1800 MHz
Frequency
2285 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
256 KB
L2 cache
-
-
-
-
28 nm
Process
7 nm
1
Transistor count
-
9 W
TDP
-
Samsung
Manufacturing
SMIC
Graphics
Adreno 510
GPU name
Maleoon 920
600 MHz
GPU frequency
840 MHz
1
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
512
4
Max size
16
0.1536 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7203 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
11
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR5X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon V56
Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2560 x 1600
Max display resolution
-
1x 21MP, 2x 13MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
X8
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
-
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
-
Up to 100 Mbps
Upload speed
-
5
Wi-Fi
7
4.1
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Feb 2015
Announced
May 2025
Mid range
Class
Mid range
MSM8956
Model number
-
