HiSilicon Kirin 8000 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC HiSilicon Kirin 8000

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

1x 2.4 GHz – 1xA77 H3x 2.19 GHz – 1xA77 L4x 1.84 GHz – A55

2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –

Frequency

2400 MHz

4610 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

ARMv9.2-A

Process

7 nm

3 nm

Manufacturing

SMIC

TSMC

L1 cache

—

1792 KB

L2 cache

—

24 MB

L3 cache

—

8 MB

Graphics

GPU name

Mali-G610 MP4

Adreno 840

GPU frequency

864 MHz

1200 MHz

Shading units

128

512

Vulkan version

1.3

—

OpenCL version

2.0

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

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Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

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NPU

Yes

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

Video capture

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- VP9

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9

Audio codecs

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Max camera resolution

—

1x 320MP

Connectivity

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.2

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

4G support

—

LTE Cat. 24

Info

Announced

Oct 2024

Sep 2025

Class

Mid range

Flagship

Model number

—

SM8850

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

—

3,115,282

Geekbench 6

—

3,834

Geekbench 6

—

12,396

FP32 (float)

—

3,686

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.