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Huawei
Huawei Kirin 820 5G
HiSilicon's 7 nm mid-range 5G chip, announced by Huawei on 30 March 2020 and first used in the Honor 30S, with the Huawei nova 7 SE and P40 lite 5G following. It combines one Cortex-A76 core at 2.36 GHz, three at 2.22 GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores with a six-core Mali-G57 GPU and an integrated 5G modem.
Pros
- Integrated 5G modem; Huawei's chip page lists both SA and NSA support across TDD and FDD spectrum
- Huawei claimed 27% higher CPU performance, 38% higher GPU performance and 73% more AI computing power than the Kirin 810, per launch coverage
- Kirin ISP 5.0 supports 4K video capture at 60 fps in launch coverage of the chip
Cons
- Huawei's chip page lists no peak modem speed, GPU clock, TDP, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth specifications
- Its first phone, the Honor 30S, lists Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and 4K video at only 30 fps in its published specifications
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: CPU and GPU still need a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Huawei Kirin 820 5G
General
- Announced
- 2020
- Process
- 7 nm
- Architecture
- ARM (Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 cores)
CPU
- Cores
- 8
- Core configuration
- 1x2.36 GHz Cortex-A76 + 3x2.22 GHz Cortex-A76 + 4x1.84 GHz Cortex-A55
- Max clock
- 2.36 GHz
GPU
- GPU
- Arm Mali-G57 MP6
AI
- NPU
- HUAWEI Da Vinci NPU (Ascend D110 Lite)
Memory
- Memory type
- LPDDR4X
Connectivity
- Modem
- Integrated 5G modem (SA/NSA)
Media
- Video capture
- 4K@60fps
Quick answers
Is the Huawei Kirin 820 5G good in 2026?
We haven't scored the Huawei Kirin 820 5G yet: there are no published CPU and GPU benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. HiSilicon's 7 nm mid-range 5G chip, announced by Huawei on 30 March 2020 and first used in the Honor 30S, with the Huawei nova 7 SE and P40 lite 5G following. It combines one Cortex-A76 core at 2.36 GHz, three at 2.22 GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores with a six-core Mali-G57 GPU and an integrated 5G modem.
What are the key specs of the Huawei Kirin 820 5G?
Cores: 8 · Process: 7 nm · GPU: Arm Mali-G57 MP6
What are the closest alternatives to the Huawei Kirin 820 5G?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G, Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G, MediaTek Helio G35 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
