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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 678

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 678 SoCs by Hisilicon and Qualcomm 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
Snapdragon 678 19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 678 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 678 61
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 678 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Snapdragon 678
CPU 194527 101216
GPU 280796 51346
Memory 146761 48181
UX 140303 82701
Total score 762387 283444
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 42.27% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3130 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 63.64% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (4 vs 11 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 168.97% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (762 K vs 283 K).
  • Kirin 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Kirin 9000 Support 195.30% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (44 vs 14.9 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

  • Snapdragon 678 has 11.18% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (845 vs 760 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 678 529

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 678 1536

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 678 102.2

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 678 14.5

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 678 27.8

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 678 23.7

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 678 13.7

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 678 2.05

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 678 527.2

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 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 - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB 16 KB
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB 0.256 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 11 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 612
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 845 MHz
  • Execution units 24 2
  • Shading units 384 96
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 354 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 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Hexagon 685
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • 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, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 X12
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%
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