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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Dimensity 9400 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 34
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 28
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 49
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Dimensity 9400
CPU 194527 600293
GPU 280796 1194784
Memory 146761 408283
UX 140303 443652
Total score 762387 2647012
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 15.97% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (3630 vs 3130 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 112.11% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (1612 vs 760 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 93.93% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (5333 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9000 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 247.20% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (2,647 K vs 762 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Dimensity 9400 8972

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

51%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 24 -
  • Shading units 384 192
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 7428 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2 3.2
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator MediaTek NPU 890
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • 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 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7168 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2560 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.4
  • 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
34%
GPU
28%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

CPU
91%
GPU
94%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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