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

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
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

Main differences and advantages of each chip
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

The AnTuTu Benchmark evaluates CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O capabilities across various scenarios.
CPU 194527 143028
GPU 280796 179320
Memory 146761 69420
UX 140303 72190
Total score 762387 463958

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
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 9300

CPU

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