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Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Overview - 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 9000 41
Snapdragon 888 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Snapdragon 888 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Snapdragon 888 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Snapdragon 888 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Snapdragon 888
CPU 194527 211734
GPU 280796 306250
Memory 146761 133870
UX 140303 156641
Total score 762387 808495
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 than Kirin 9000 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Snapdragon 888 1126

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Snapdragon 888 3681

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 888 177.1

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 888 26.5

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 888 67.7

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 888 59.9

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 888 37.5

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 888 3.96

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Snapdragon 888 1060

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 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 2.84 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
  • 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 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
  • 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 888

CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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