Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Kirin 9010

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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 8 Gen 2 57
Kirin 9010 55
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Kirin 9010 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Kirin 9010 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Kirin 9010 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Kirin 9010
CPU 270867 305156
GPU 567801 197179
Memory 239879 266091
UX 198202 201408
Total score 1276749 969834
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 39.13% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (3200 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 30.67% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (980 vs 750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 52.73% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9010 (4200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9010 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 31.65% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9010 (1,277 K vs 970 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9010.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490
Kirin 9010 1442

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198
Kirin 9010 4471

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3
Kirin 9010

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2
Kirin 9010

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9
Kirin 9010

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1
Kirin 9010

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7
Kirin 9010

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81
Kirin 9010

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510
Kirin 9010

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 81 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 HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

70%
Base Frequency

1550 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
    4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
    6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 12
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 740 Maleoon 910
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Maleoon
  • GPU frequency 980 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4200 MHz 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR5
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Da Vinci
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X70 Balong 5000
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 7 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

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