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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Dimensity 1080 SoCs by Hisilicon and Mediatek 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
Dimensity 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Dimensity 1080
CPU 194527 143941
GPU 280796 140125
Memory 146761 96692
UX 140303 136066
Total score 762387 516824
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 20.38% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (3130 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1080 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 47.51% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1080 (762 K vs 517 K).
  • Kirin 9000 Support 62.96% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (44 vs 27 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 25.00% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (950 vs 760 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1080 has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Dimensity 1080 2252

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 24 5
  • Shading units 384 64
  • FLOPS 1076 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 27 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
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%

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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