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Huawei
Huawei Kirin 820E
A six-core 7 nm 5G chip that Huawei introduced on 22 January 2021 with the nova 7 SE 5G Lohas Edition in China. It combines three Cortex-A76 cores at 2.22 GHz and three Cortex-A55 cores at 1.84 GHz with a 6-core Mali-G57 GPU. It later appeared in the global Huawei nova 8 and the MatePad Paper E Ink tablet.
Pros
- Six cores, three Cortex-A76 at 2.22 GHz and three Cortex-A55 at 1.84 GHz, as listed on Huawei's own nova 8 spec page
- 7 nm process with an integrated 5G modem supporting SA and NSA, per launch coverage
- 6-core Mali-G57 GPU with Kirin Gaming+ 2.0 and Kirin ISP 5.0, per launch coverage of the chip
Cons
- Two fewer CPU cores than the Kirin 820: it drops the 2.36 GHz Cortex-A76 prime core and one Cortex-A55, based on HiSilicon's Kirin 820 page
- Modest graphics: the nova 8's median 3DMark Wild Life Extreme result in UL's database is 640
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: CPU still needs a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Huawei Kirin 820E
General
- Announced
- 2021
- Process
- 7 nm
- Architecture
- ARM (Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 cores)
CPU
- Cores
- 6
- Core configuration
- 3x2.22 GHz Cortex-A76 + 3x1.84 GHz Cortex-A55
- Max clock
- 2.22 GHz
GPU
- GPU
- Arm Mali-G57 MP6
AI
- NPU
- HUAWEI Da Vinci NPU
Connectivity
- Modem
- Integrated 5G modem (SA/NSA)
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Wild Life Extreme
- 640Bottom 43%
Devices with the Huawei Kirin 820E
1 device in our catalog uses this chip
Quick answers
Is the Huawei Kirin 820E good in 2026?
We haven't scored the Huawei Kirin 820E yet: there are no published CPU benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. A six-core 7 nm 5G chip that Huawei introduced on 22 January 2021 with the nova 7 SE 5G Lohas Edition in China. It combines three Cortex-A76 cores at 2.22 GHz and three Cortex-A55 cores at 1.84 GHz with a 6-core Mali-G57 GPU. It later appeared in the global Huawei nova 8 and the MatePad Paper E Ink tablet.
Which devices use the Huawei Kirin 820E?
One device in our catalog uses the Huawei Kirin 820E: Huawei MatePad Paper.
What are the key specs of the Huawei Kirin 820E?
Cores: 6 · Process: 7 nm · GPU: Arm Mali-G57 MP6
What are the closest alternatives to the Huawei Kirin 820E?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Qualcomm Snapdragon 695, Qualcomm Snapdragon 480+ 5G, Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
