Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 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 7 Plus Gen 2 54
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 100
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 67
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 7.56% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (3130 vs 2910 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 31.03% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (760 vs 580 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 Support 71.88% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (44 vs 25.6 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 24.20% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (947 K vs 762 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 1656

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 4482

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 85%

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - QHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3360 x 1600
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

2910 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.49 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm -
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion 4 Billion
  • TDP 4 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 725
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 580 MHz
  • Execution units 24 -
  • Shading units 384 -
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.2
  • 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

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

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

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3360 x 1600
  • 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, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7168 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2560 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 4400 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1600 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem Balong 5000 X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

CPU
54%
GPU
46%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
100%
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