The upcoming Kirin 820 mid-range chip is as fast as Snapdragon 855

Just a few days after HONOR announced that the HONOR 30S will go official on March 30, a phone with the upcoming Kirin 820 5G chip, Chinese website IT Home recently obtained the alleged Geekbench performance of the upcoming Huawei mid-range SoC.

Kirin 820 teaser on HONOR 30S

A 5G mid-range chip with 2019 flagship speed

The exciting thing about it? It showed that the said mid-range chip is even faster than the Kirin 980 2018 flagship chip and fast the Snapdragon 855 2019 flagship SoC.

Geekbench performance of Kirin 820 5G SoC versus Kirin 980 and Snapdragon 855

Like the Snapdragon 855, the Kirin 820 achieved a Multi-Core Score of 11,200. In comparison, Kirin 980 only got 10,200. For the Single-Core performance, it has the highest of the bunch with a high-score of 3,490. Kirin 980 and Snapdragon 855 scored 3,360 and 3,450, respectively.

Related: HONOR 30S 5G with powerful Kirin 820 SoC and 64MP cam now official

That's impressive as phones with either SD855 or Kirin 980 are flagship devices like the Huawei P30 Pro and OnePlus 7 Pro.

IT Home added that the Kirin 820 will be based on the 7nm manufacturing processor with Cortex-A76 cores and Mali-G77 GPU. It'll also have Huawei's DaVinci NPU and improved ISP.

If this report is accurate, the said chip could be a game-changer as it'll provide 2019 flagship speed on 2020 mid-range phones.

Kirin 810 is still super good even up to this date and this is shaping up to be even better.

See also: Kirin 820 5G is a 7nm mid-range chip with upgraded NPU and Kirin 990-like ISP

What do you guys think?

Source: IT Home