Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm

SOC HiSilicon Kirin 9000

CPU

Architecture

2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –

1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A773x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A774x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55

Frequency

4610 MHz

3130 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.2-A

L1 cache

1792 KB

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L2 cache

24 MB

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L3 cache

8 MB

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Process

3 nm

5 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

Transistor count

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15.3

TDP

—

6 W

Graphics

GPU name

Adreno 840

Mali-G78 MP24

GPU frequency

1200 MHz

759 MHz

Shading units

512

Execution units

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Vulkan version

—

1.3

OpenCL version

—

2.0

DirectX version

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR5

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Memory frequency

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2750 MHz

Max bandwidth

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44 Gbit/s

NPU

Hexagon

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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

UFS 3.1

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

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Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

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

H.264, H.265, VP9

Audio codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Neural processor (NPU)

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AI accelerator

Max display resolution

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3840 x 2160

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.2

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Download speed

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Up to 4600 Mbps

Upload speed

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Up to 2500 Mbps

Info

Announced

Sep 2025

Oct 2020

Class

Flagship

Model number

SM8850

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Official page

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Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,115,282

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Geekbench 6

3,834

1,266

Geekbench 6

12,396

3,529

FP32 (float)

3,686

2,331

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