Hisilicon Kirin 9000 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched Kirin 9000 and Snapdragon 860 SoCs, developed by Hisilicon and Qualcomm respectively. Our assessment weighs the benefits and drawbacks of these 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, as well as their full technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of 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 the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
- Kirin 9000 supports 28.92 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 ( 44 vs 34.13 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
CPU | 194527 | 143028 |
GPU | 280796 | 179320 |
Memory | 146761 | 69420 |
UX | 140303 | 72190 |
Total score | 762387 | 463958 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Stability | 54% | 98% |
Graphics test | 36 FPS | 20 FPS |
Score | 6040 | 3455 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Kirin 9000 and Dimensity 9300CPU
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 |
Base Frequency | 2050MHz | 1800MHz |
Turbo Frequency | 3130MHz | 2960MHz |
Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8.1-A |
L2 cache | 64 KB | - |
L2 cache | 0.512 MB | - |
L3 cache | 4 MB | 2 MB |
Process | 4 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
Transistor count | 15.3 billion | - |
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 4 W | 10 W |
Graphics
GPU name | Mali-G78 MP24 | Adreno 640 |
Architecture | Valhall 2 | Adreno 600 |
GPU frequency | 760 MHz | 675 MHz |
Pipelines | 24 | 2 |
Shading units | 384 | 384 |
Total shaders | 768 | 768 |
FLOPS | 1076 Gigaflops | 1037 Gigaflops |
Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
OpenCL version | 2 | 2.0 |
DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
AI Accelerator
Neural processor (NPU) | AI accelerator | Hexagon 690 |
Memory
Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
Memory frequency | 2750 MHz | 2133 MHz |
Bus | - | - |
Max bandwidth | 44 Gbit/s | 34.13 Gbit/s |
Max size | 16 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
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 |
Connectivity
Modem | Balong 5000 | X24 LTE, X50 5G |
4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 20 |
5G support | Yes | Yes |
Download speed 5G | Up to 7168 Mbps | Up to 5000 Mbps |
Download speed 4G | - | Up to 2000 Mbps |
Upload speed 5G | Up to 2560 Mbps | Up to 1200 Mbps |
Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 316 Mbps |
Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.0 |
Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS |
Info
Announced | October 2020 | April 2019 |
Class | Flagship | Flagship |
Model number | - | SM8150-AC |
Official page | Kirin 9000 official site | Snapdragon 860 official site |