Compare HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs Snapdragon 845 SoC

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HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs Snapdragon 845
Recently Honor 30S smartphone was launched in
China. This smartphone is powered by HiSilicon
Kirin 820 5G SoC. This Kirin 820 SoC offers a
great mid-range performance along with the
support for 5G. The Kirin 820 is an
upper-mid-range chipset which can easily compete
with old flagship chipsets. Considering this we
decided to compare HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs
Snapdragon 845 chipsets.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 is 2017s flagship
chipset. Now it has to be seen that how they
performs against each other. If you also want to
know then read this comparison. Lets compare
them.
HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs Snapdragon 845
Aspects
HiSilicon Kirin 820 5G
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
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Aspects
HiSilicon Kirin 820 5G
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
CPU 1 ARM Cortex- A76_at_2.36GHz 3 ARM
Cortex- A76_at_2.22GHz 4 ARM Cortex- A55_at_1.84GHz
4 ARM Cortex-A75_at_2.80GHz 4 ARM Cortex-A55_at_1.70GHz
GPU ARM Mali-G57 6-Cores Adreno 630
Manufacturing Process
TSMC's 7nm Samsung's 10nm 10LPP
Camera
Dual - 48MP 24MP Single - Up to 64MP
Dual - Up to 16MP 16MP Single - Up to 16
MP(MFNR ZSL) Up to 192 MP
RAM Up to 8GB LPDDR4x_at_2133MHz
Up to 8GB LPDDR4x_at_1866MHz
Storage UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 UFS2.1, SD 3.0
Display Full HD Plus 4K Ultra HD
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Kirin 820 vs Snapdragon 845 CPU GPU
CPU
First of all talk about the CPU of Kirin 820, it
has an octa-core CPU based on 64 bit architecture
which includes 1 ARM Cortex-A76 Core operating at
2.36GHz, 3 ARM Cortex- A76 Cores operating at up
to 2.22GHz and 4 ARM Cortex-A55 Cores clocked at
up to 1.84GHz.
On the other hand, Snapdragon 845 also features
a 64 bit octa-core CPU that integrates 4 ARM
Cortex-A75 Gold Cores clocked at up to 2.80GHz
and 4 ARM Cortex-A55 Silver Cores that can
operate at up to 1.70GHz.
Here the Kirin 820 has better CPU architecture
while Snapdragon 845 has better clock speed of
its big cores. So having better CPU architecture,
Kirin 820 has better CPU performance than
Snapdragon 845 SoC.
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GPU
For gaming, the Kirin 820 features an ARM
Mali-G57 6-Cores GPU while Snapdragon 845
integrates the Adreno 630 GPU.
Manufacaturing Process
Speaking of the Kirin 820, it is fabricated on
the 7nm manufacturing process of TSMC while
Snapdragon 845 works on Samsungs 10nm 10LPP
process technology.
Here the difference of 3nm, makes Kirin 820 a
better chipset in comparison of Snapdragon 845.
Kirin 820 vs Snapdragon 845 Camera, Memory
Display Camera
Moving on camera and optics, here the Kirin 820
has support for dual cameras up to 48MP 24MP
and single camera of up to 64MP.
Speaking of Snapdragon 845, it integrates the
Qualcomm Spectra 280 image signal processor which
is a 14 bit dual IPS and supports dual camera of
up to 16MP 16MP. In the case of single camera,
it can support up to 16MP single camera with MFNR
ZSL up to 60fps, up to 32MP with MFNR ZSL at
30fps, up to 48MP with MFNR only and up to 192MP
without MFNR ZSL.
Memory
Here Snapdragon 845 supports up to 8GB LPDDR4x
RAM clocked at up to 1866MHz and UFS2.1, SD 3.0
based storage.
On the other side, Kirin 820 has support for up
to 8GB LPDDR4x RAM clocked at 2133MHz and UFS
2.1, UFS 3.0 based storage support.
Display
Here the Kirin 820 supports up to Full HD Plus
displays with a maximum resolution of 2400 x
1080p while Snapdragon 845 supports up to 4K
Ultra HD displays with a maximum resolution of
3840 x 2160 pixels.
AI
There is no comparison in the case of AI between
the HiSilicon Kirin 820 and Snapdragon 845.
Because the Kirin 810 outperforms the Snapdragon
855 Plus in terms of AI. The Snapdragon 855 Plus
is the successor of Snapdragon 845 and it cant
beat Kirin 810 in terms of AI. The Kirin 820 is
the successor of Kirin 810 so it performs better
than the Kirin 810 in the case of AI, so it can
easily beat Snapdragon 845.
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Connectivity Features
Connectivity-wise, the Kirin 820 has support for
2G, 3G, 4G and 5G while Snapdragon 845 has
support for up to 4G only. It can capture a
maximum downloading speed of 1.2Gbps using LTE
Cat.18 and an uploading speed on up to 150Mbps
using LTE Cat.13.
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