HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G and HiSilicon Kirin 9000S mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 7 nm (7 nm vs 14 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 2860 MHz (2860 MHz vs 2620 MHz)
  • Higher Max Bandwidth: 44 Gbit/s (34.1 Gbit/s vs 44 Gbit/s)
  • Newer Launch Date: August 2023 (October 2019 vs August 2023)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
HiSilicon
October 2019
Launch Date
August 2023
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
SMIC
Kirin 990 5G
Model Name
Kirin 9000S
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.62 GHz – Cortex-X1 4x 2.15 GHz – Cortex-A710 6x 1.53 GHz – Cortex-A510
8
Cores
12
7 nm
Technology
14 nm
2860 MHz
Frequency
2620 MHz
8
Transistor count
-

GPU Specifications

Mali-G76 MP16
GPU name
Maleoon 910
600 MHz
GPU frequency
750 MHz
0.6912 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
36
Shading units
-
16
Execution units
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
1.3
Vulkan version
-
3360 x 1440
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
12
DirectX version
-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
5.0
Bluetooth
5.2
6
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2750 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max Bandwidth
44 Gbit/s

Miscellaneous

Da Vinci
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
UFS 4.0
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VC-1
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
6 W
TDP
7 W
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
-

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 990 5G
969
Kirin 9000S
1222 +26%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 990 5G
3176
Kirin 9000S
3622 +14%
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 990 5G
707196
Kirin 9000S
923510 +31%