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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 9000 41
Snapdragon 860 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 860 24
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 860 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 860 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

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

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 860 744

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 860 2616

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 860 142.85

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 860 20.3

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 860 44.55

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 860 46.35

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 860 22.85

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 860 1.65

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 860 777.9

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 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 2.96 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
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 X24 LTE, X50 5G
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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