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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Dimensity 8100 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 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Dimensity 8100
CPU 194527 204875
GPU 280796 311503
Memory 146761 130636
UX 140303 161518
Total score 762387 808532
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 9.82% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (3130 vs 2850 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8100 (4 vs 5 nm).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 20.00% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (912 vs 760 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 132.73% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (6400 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 6.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (809 K vs 762 K ).
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 16.36% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 9000 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Dimensity 8100 4081

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 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 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – 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 4 MB
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units 24 6
  • Shading units 384 -
  • 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 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP
  • 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, AV1, 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 R16-ready 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • 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 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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