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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 888 – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 9000 Vs Snapdragon 888

Kirin 9000
VS
Snapdragon 888
Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 888
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 888 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
70
Snapdragon 888
73
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000
60
Snapdragon 888
62
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000
86
Snapdragon 888
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000
72
Snapdragon 888
72

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000
  • Kirin 9000 has 10.21% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3130 vs 2840 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 (4 vs 5 nm).
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
  • Snapdragon 888 has 10.53% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (840 vs 760 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 6.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (808 K vs 762 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 16.36% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 9000 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 9000
vs
Snapdragon 888

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000
762387
Snapdragon 888 +7%
808495
CPU 194527 211734
GPU 280796 306250
Memory 146761 133870
UX 140303 156641
Total score 762387 808495

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 9000
1054
Snapdragon 888 +7%
1126
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 9000 +1%
3724
Snapdragon 888
3681
Image compression - 177.1 Mpixels/s
Face detection - 26.5 images/s
Speech recognition - 67.7 words/s
Machine learning - 59.9 images/s
Camera shooting - 37.5 images/s
HTML 5 - 3.96 Mnodes/s
SQLite - 1060 Mnodes/s

3DMark

47%
Kirin 9000
40%
SD 888
Score: 6040

Stability 54% 91%
Graphics test 36 FPS 30 FPS
Score 6040 5126

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 9000 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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 - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
Color Gamut - Rec. 2020

  CPU

90%
Kirin 9000
82%
SD 888
Frequency

Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 2050 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3130 MHz 2840 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache 64 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 0.512 MB 1 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 4 MB
Process 4 5
Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
TDP 4 W 10 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Adreno 660
Architecture Valhall 2 Adreno 600
GPU frequency 760 MHz 840 MHz
Execution units 24 2
Shading units 384 512
FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 1720 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
OpenCL version 2 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory frequency 2750 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 24 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Hexagon 780
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 120FPS
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

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
Snapdragon 888
2500
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
7168
Snapdragon 888
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
Snapdragon 888
316
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
2560
Snapdragon 888
3000
Modem Balong 5000 X60
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 7168 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 2560 Mbps Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date October 2020 December 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - SM8350
Official page Kirin 9000 official site Snapdragon 888 official site
Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Hisilicon Kirin 9000
CPU
65%
GPU
60%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

62


Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
CPU
73%
GPU
62%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

54.25


Review By TenzysTech

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