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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 870

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 870 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 870 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 870 34
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 870 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 870 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Snapdragon 870
CPU 194527 179347
GPU 280796 270188
Memory 146761 98761
UX 140303 95818
Total score 762387 644114
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 17.83% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (760 vs 645 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 18.36% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (762 K vs 644 K).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 2.24% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (3200 vs 3130 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 870 1038

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 870 3569

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 870 180.6

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 870 25.25

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 870 54.7

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 870 56.95

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 870 28

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 870 989.1

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 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 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 4 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 650
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 645 MHz
  • Execution units 24 2
  • Shading units 384 512
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 1,267 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 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Hexagon 698
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K 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 X55
  • 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 870

CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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