Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 778G Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 778G Plus 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 778G Plus 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Snapdragon 778G Plus
CPU 194527 166382
GPU 280796 177972
Memory 146761 106394
UX 140303 130486
Total score 762387 581234
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 25.20% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (3130 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 38.18% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (760 vs 550 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778G Plus (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 31.17% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 778G Plus (762 K vs 581 K).
  • Kirin 9000 Support 71.88% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 778G Plus (44 vs 25.6 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 778G Plus 816

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 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
    1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB 2 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 642L
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 550 MHz
  • Execution units 24 2
  • Shading units 384 384
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 845 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Hexagon 770
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 192MP
  • 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 X53
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • 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 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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