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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 11.79% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3130 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 182.13% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (762 K vs 270 K).
  • Kirin 9000 Support 158.82% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (44 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 685 1609

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A 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 -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 610
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz -
  • Execution units 24 2
  • Shading units 384 96
  • 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

Memory frequency

2750 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Hexagon 686
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 390 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7168 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2560 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem Balong 5000 X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • 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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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