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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Dimensity 1200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Dimensity 1200 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 1200 36
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Dimensity 1200 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Dimensity 1200 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Dimensity 1200 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Dimensity 1200
CPU 194527 170589
GPU 280796 233643
Memory 146761 118786
UX 140303 145445
Total score 762387 668463
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 4.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (3130 vs 3000 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 14.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (762 K vs 668 K).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 11.84% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (850 vs 760 MHz).
  • Dimensity 1200 has 55.13% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (4266 vs 2750 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Dimensity 1200 925

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Dimensity 1200 3246

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Dimensity 1200 171.75

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Dimensity 1200 32.25

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Dimensity 1200 51.5

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Dimensity 1200 51.65

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Dimensity 1200 27.35

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
Dimensity 1200 3.76

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Dimensity 1200 931.9

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @ 168 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 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
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB 32 KB
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB 0.32 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 8 MB
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 24 9
  • Shading units 384 144
  • 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 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 29 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 19
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, 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%

Mediatek Dimensity 1200

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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