Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 vs HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ1/SQ2 HiSilicon Kirin 810/820
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  1 6
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  4x Kryo 495 Gold 3x Cortex-A76
• B-Core
  4x Kryo 495 Silver 3x Cortex-A55
• Base Frequency
  1.8 GHz 1.84 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3 GHz 2.22 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  3 GHz 1.84 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  12.0 12
• Execution units
  8 6
• Generation
  5 Vallhall 1
• GPU Frequency
  250 MHz 850 MHz
• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 685 ARM Mali-G57 MP6
• GPU Turbo
  650 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 4 GB
• Release date
  Q4/2018 Q2/2020
• Shader
  1536 96
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G and Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB -
• Memory channels
  1 4
• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-2133 LPDDR4X-2133

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 and HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  7 W 6 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 and HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kryo 495 Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q1/2021
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None