Huawei Pura X runs on Kirin 9020 chipset

Huawei unveiled the Pura X yesterday without even mentioning the chipset. The company"s policy is not to comment on the SoC situation, but we now learn it is Kirin 9020, as the device was available for a hands-on experience after the launch.

The Kirin 9020 is a self-developed platform by HiSilicon, the chipset division of Huawei. It debuted in November 2024 with the Huawei Mate 70 series.

Hardware info apps reveal a 12-core CPU, but that"s because of hyperthreading; the chip has an 8-core processor. The breakdown is one 2.5 GHz Taishan Big core, three 2.15 GHz Taishan Mid ones and four 1.53 GHz Cortex-A510 cores.

The top core might be the in-house Taishan, but the four small units are Arm-based Cortex-A510, which were developed and acquired before Huawei was added to the Entity List.

The GPU in Kirin 9020 is Maleoon 920, another in-house product. It runs at up to 840 MHz, but we have no details on the architecture or the processing unit count. While the CPU performance is not far from Qualcomm"s flagship chips, the GPU still acts as a mid-range unit.

Source (in Chinese)