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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 690

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 690 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 690 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 690 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 690 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 690 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Snapdragon 690
CPU 194527 110385
GPU 280796 76645
Memory 146761 63724
UX 140303 94636
Total score 762387 345390
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 56.50% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (3130 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (4 vs 8 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 120.73% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (762 K vs 345 K).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 25.00% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (950 vs 760 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 690 607

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 690 1852

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 690 111.3

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 690 16.9

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 690 28.8

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 690 26.7

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 690 15.9

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 690 2.25

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 690 579.5

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60Hz
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (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 -
  • Process 4 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 619L
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 24 2
  • Shading units 384 128
  • 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 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 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 692
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 690

CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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