Overview - Snapdragon 888 Plus Vs Kirin 9010

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 Plus vs Kirin 9010 SoCs by Qualcomm and respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 12-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 888 Plus 43
Kirin 9010 55
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Kirin 9010 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Kirin 9010 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Kirin 9010 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Plus Kirin 9010
CPU 216591 305156
GPU 324286 197179
Memory 138188 266091
UX 167760 201408
Total score 846825 969834
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 30.22% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (2995 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 20.67% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (905 vs 750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9010 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9010 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9010.

Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 9010

  • Kirin 9010 has 14.53% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 Plus (970 K vs 847 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171
Kirin 9010 1442

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704
Kirin 9010 4471

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

70%
Base Frequency

1550 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
    4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
    6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 12
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 10.3 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Maleoon 910
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Maleoon
  • GPU frequency 905 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1853 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 Da Vinci
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X60 Balong 5000
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

CPU
55%
GPU
38%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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