Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 720G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 720G SoCs by Hisilicon and Qualcomm respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 9000 41
Snapdragon 720G 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 720G 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 720G 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 720G 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Snapdragon 720G
CPU 194527 98820
GPU 280796 71078
Memory 146761 47158
UX 140303 52126
Total score 762387 269182
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 36.09% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (3130 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 1.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (760 vs 750 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 47.37% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (2750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (4 vs 8 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 183.22% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (762 K vs 269 K).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 720G 569

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 720G 1780

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 720G 110.2

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 720G 13.1

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 720G 27.3

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 720G 26.1

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 720G 15.7

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 720G 2.16

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 720G 533.6

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB 1 MB
  • Process 4 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 618
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 24 2
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 435 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 13.91 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 384 kHz/32 bit
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 X15
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 15
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 9000

CPU
41%
GPU
36%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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