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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 860 – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 860

Kirin 9000
VS
Snapdragon 860
Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 860
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 860 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 9000
64
Snapdragon 860
45
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000
55
Snapdragon 860
37
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000
86
Snapdragon 860
75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000
68
Snapdragon 860
52

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000
  • Kirin 9000 has 5.74% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3130 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 12.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (760 vs 675 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 64.32% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (762 K vs 464 K).
  • Kirin 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Kirin 9000 Support 28.92% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (44 vs 34.13 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 9000
vs
Snapdragon 860

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 +65%
762387
Snapdragon 860
463958
CPU 194527 143028
GPU 280796 179320
Memory 146761 69420
UX 140303 72190
Total score 762387 463958

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 9000 +42%
1054
Snapdragon 860
744
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 9000 +42%
3724
Snapdragon 860
2616
Image compression - 142.85 Mpixels/s
Face detection - 20.3 images/s
Speech recognition - 44.55 words/s
Machine learning - 46.35 images/s
Camera shooting - 22.85 images/s
HTML 5 - 1.65 Mnodes/s
SQLite - 777.9 Mnodes/s

3DMark

47%
Kirin 9000
27%
SD 860
Score: 6040

Stability 54% 98%
Graphics test 36 FPS 20 FPS
Score 6040 3455

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 9000 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Display

Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution - QHD @ 60Hz
Max External Display - -
HDR - HDR10+
Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
Color Gamut - Rec2020

  CPU

90%
Kirin 9000
86%
SD 860
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 2050 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3130 MHz 2960 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.1-A
L1 cache 64 KB -
L2 cache 0.512 MB -
L3 cache 4 MB 2 MB
Process 4 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
TDP 4 W 10 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 640
Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
GPU frequency 760 MHz 675 MHz
Execution units 24 2
Shading units 384 384
FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 1037 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
OpenCL version 2 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 16 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Hexagon 690
Storage type UFS 3.1 EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
Snapdragon 860
2000
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
7168
Snapdragon 860
5000
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
Snapdragon 860
316
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
2560
Snapdragon 860
1200
Modem Balong 5000 X24 LTE, X50 5G
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 7168 Mbps Up to 5000 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 2560 Mbps Up to 1200 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Announced Date October 2020 April 2019
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - SM8150-AC
Official page Kirin 9000 official site Snapdragon 860 official site
Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Hisilicon Kirin 9000
CPU
64%
GPU
55%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

59.25


Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
45%
GPU
37%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

39.25


Review By TenzysTech

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