What is the difference between HiSilicon Kirin 9000 and HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G)? Should you buy phone having HiSilicon Kirin 9000 or should go for HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G)? Well, you'll get all your questions cleared here.Compare two chipset models on the basis of their benchmark score (AnTuTu and Geekbench), pros and cons, technical specs categorised into gaming, CPU, GPU, Multimedia, and Connectivity.
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 has a AnTuTu benchmark score of 694127 and HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) has AnTuTu score of 436390. HiSilicon Kirin 9000 comes up with 8 cores, 3130 MHz frequency and on the other hand, HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) has 8 cores and 2860 MHz frequency. In terms of Graphics, HiSilicon Kirin 9000 has Mali-G78 MP24 GPU and Valhall 2 architecture and latter HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) comes up with Mali G76 MP16 GPU and Bifrost architecture.
Go through detailed comparison below to see the actual difference and similarity between both chipsets.
Specifications | Kirin 9000 | Kirin 990 (4G) |
---|---|---|
Total score | 694127 | 436390 |
Frequency | 3130 MHz | 2860 MHz |
Max size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3360 x 1440 |
AnTuTu Score | ||
CPU | 189738 | 138017 |
GPU | 291337 | 145170 |
Memory | 115924 | 98516 |
UX | 89892 | 55324 |
Total score | 694127 | 436390 |
Connectivity Features | ||
Modem | Balong 5000 | |
4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 21 |
5G support | Yes | No |
Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.0 |
Performance | ||
Processor | 1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A773x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A774x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55 | 2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
Cores | 8 | 8 |
Frequency | 3130 MHz | 2860 MHz |
Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8-A |
Process | 5 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
Transistor count | 15.3 billion | 8 billion |
TDP | 6 W | 6 W |
Graphics | ||
GPU name | Mali-G78 MP24 | Mali G76 MP16 |
Architecture | Valhall 2 | Bifrost |
Execution units | 24 | 16 |
Shading units | 384 | 256 |
Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory Info | ||
Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
Memory frequency | 2750 MHz | 2133 MHz |
Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
Max bandwidth | 44 Gbit/s | 31.78 Gbit/s |
Max size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia | ||
Neural processor (NPU) | AI accelerator | Da Vinci |
Storage type | UFS 3.1 | UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 |
Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3360 x 1440 |
Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VC-1 |
Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Game Performance | ||
PUBG Mobile | 81 FPS [Ultra] | 58 FPS [Ultra] |
Call of Duty: Mobile | 44 FPS [Ultra] | 41 FPS [Ultra] |
Fortnite | 29 FPS [Low] | 29 FPS [Ultra] |
World of Tanks Blitz | 51 FPS [Ultra] | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
Genshin Impact | 58 FPS [Ultra] | |
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 60 FPS [Ultra] | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
Device | Huawei Mate 40 Pro 1344 x 3140 | Huawei Mate 30 Pro 1146 x 2400 |
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 has been announced on October 2020 whereas HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) has been announced on October 2019. Check out detailed comparison with key specs below:
Benchmark measures the performance of the CPU. Geekbench is a benchmark that measures a processor's single core performance and AnTuTu score is the most popular and trustable benchmarking score which evaluates multi core performance. Kirin 9000 has an AnTuTu benchmark score of 694127 points with CPU, GPU, Memory, UX score 189738, 291337, 115924, 89892 respectively.
CPU speed shows how many processing cycles per second can be executed by a CPU. Kirin 9000 comes up with the architecture of Valhall 2 and Kirin 990 (4G) comes up with architecture of Bifrost. Former one has 8 core and 3130 MHz frequency and latter has 8 cores and 2860 MHz frequency. A larger cache time leads to faster performance.
First chipset has max size of 16 GB and HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) has max size of 16 GB. It shows the maximum amount of memory supported by a chipset.
In terms of multimedia, Kirin 9000 has AI accelerator NPU with storage type as UFS 3.1 and Kirin 990 (4G) has Da Vinci NPU and UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 storage type.