HiSilicon Kirin 9050 Pro
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 9050 Pro and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Newer Launch Date: September 2026 (September 2026 vs November 2022)
  • Higher Frequency: 3200 MHz (3100 MHz vs 3200 MHz)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
Qualcomm
September 2026
Launch Date
November 2022
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
SMIC
Manufacturing
TSMC
HiSilicon Kirin 9050 Pro
Model Name
SM8550-AB
1x 3.1 GHz, 2x 2.7 GHz, 4x 2.2 GHz, 2x 1.75 GHz
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
9
Cores
8
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Technology
4 nm
3100 MHz
Frequency
3200 MHz

GPU Specifications

Maleoon 955
GPU name
Adreno 740
1050 MHz
GPU frequency
680 MHz
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FLOPS
3.4816 TFLOPS
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Shading units
1280
6
Execution units
2
-
OpenCL version
2.0
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Vulkan version
1.1
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Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
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DirectX version
12.1

Connectivity

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Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
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4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Bluetooth 6.0
Bluetooth
5.3
Wi-Fi 7
Wi-Fi
7
GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NavIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

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Memory type
LPDDR5X
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Memory frequency
4200 MHz
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Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

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L2 Cache
1 MB
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Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
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Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
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Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
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Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
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Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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TDP
6.3 W
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Instruction set
ARMv9-A
Da Vinci
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 9050 Pro
1636
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
1993 +22%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 9050 Pro
5775 +8%
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
5328
AntuTu 11
Kirin 9050 Pro
1902468 +8%
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
1757044