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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Dimensity 8020

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Dimensity 8020 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 8020 35
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Dimensity 8020 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Dimensity 8020 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Dimensity 8020 48
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Dimensity 8020
CPU 194527 169130
GPU 280796 238983
Memory 146761 130727
UX 140303 148460
Total score 762387 687300
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 20.38% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8020 (3130 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8020 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8020 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 10.92% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8020 (762 K vs 687 K).
  • Kirin 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8020.
  • Kirin 9000 Support 29.03% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 8020 (44 vs 34.1 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Dimensity 8020 826

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Dimensity 8020 3315

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @144 Hz, QHD+ @90 Hz
  • 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
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A -
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 760 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 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator MediaTek APU 570
  • 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 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 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 8020

CPU
35%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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