Kirin 9000 Vs 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
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 benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 194527 | 211734 |
| GPU | 280796 | 306250 |
| Memory | 146761 | 133870 |
| UX | 140303 | 156641 |
| Total score | 762387 | 808495 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| 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 900040%
SD 888Score: 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 888Display
| 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 900082%
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)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| 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
62
Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
54.25
Review By TenzysTech
