HiSilicon Kirin 9010 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC HiSilicon Kirin 9010

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V1216x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V1214x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510

2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –

Frequency

2300 MHz

4610 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

ARMv9.2-A

Process

7 nm

3 nm

Manufacturing

SMIC

TSMC

L1 cache

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1792 KB

L2 cache

—

24 MB

L3 cache

—

8 MB

Graphics

GPU name

Maleoon 910

Adreno 840

GPU frequency

750 MHz

1200 MHz

Shading units

—

512

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

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Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

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Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

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Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

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Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K 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

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

Max camera resolution

—

1x 320MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

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Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

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Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.2

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced

Apr 2024

Sep 2025

Class

Flagship

Model number

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SM8850

NPU

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Hexagon

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

979,511

3,115,282

Geekbench 6

1,442

3,834

Geekbench 6

4,471

12,396

FP32 (float)

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3,686

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