Hisilicon Kirin 9000 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
We’ve created an extensive comparison of the latest Kirin 9000 vs Snapdragon 888 SoCs, manufactured by Hisilicon and Qualcomm respectively. We’ve assessed the strengths and weaknesses of these 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark results, along with a detailed look at their 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 10.21% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3130 vs 2840 MHz).
- Kirin 9000 has 20.00% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 (4 vs 5 nm).
Pros of 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
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 194527 | 211734 |
| GPU | 280796 | 306250 |
| Memory | 146761 | 133870 |
| UX | 140303 | 156641 |
| Total score | 762387 | 808495 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 54% | 91% |
| Graphics test | 36 FPS | 30 FPS |
| Score | 6040 | 5126 |
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 2.84 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 | 2050MHz | 1800MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3130MHz | 2840MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8.4-A |
| L2 cache | 64 KB | 512 KB |
| L2 cache | 0.512 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15.3 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 4 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G78 MP24 | Adreno 660 |
| Architecture | Valhall 2 | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 760 MHz | 840 MHz |
| Pipelines | 24 | 2 |
| Shading units | 384 | 512 |
| Total shaders | 768 | 1024 |
| FLOPS | 1076 Gigaflops | 1720 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | AI accelerator | Hexagon 780 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 2750 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 44 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| 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
| Modem | Balong 5000 | X60 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 22 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7168 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 2560 Mbps | Up to 3000 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 316 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 | October 2020 | December 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | - | SM8350 |
| Official page | Kirin 9000 official site | Snapdragon 888 official site |