Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 8 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 8 Gen 2 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
CPU 194527 270867
GPU 280796 567801
Memory 146761 239879
UX 140303 198202
Total score 762387 1276749
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 2.24% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (3200 vs 3130 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 28.95% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (980 vs 760 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 52.73% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (4200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 67.47% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (1,277 K vs 762 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 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 8 Gen 2 1490

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 8 MB
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 740
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 980 MHz
  • Execution units 24 -
  • Shading units 384 -
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5x
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1 x 200 MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 Snapdragon X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • 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 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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