HiSilicon Kirin 9000E vs Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the HiSilicon Kirin 9000E on one side and the Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 on the other side. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, It has 8 cores, 8 threads, a maximum frequency of 3.1GHz. The second is used on the smartphone segment, it has a total of 4 cores, 4 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 2.2 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in Geekbench 4 and Cinebench R15.
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Specifications:
Processor | |
HiSilicon Kirin 9000E |
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Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 |
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Market (main) | |
Smartphone |
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Smartphone |
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ISA | |
ARMv8.2-A (64-bit) |
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ARMv8-A (64-bit) |
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Microarchitecture | |
Cortex-A77, Cortex-A55, DynamIQ |
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Kryo |
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Family | |
Kirin 9000 |
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Snapdragon 800 |
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Part number(s), S-Spec | |
Kirin 9000E, Kirin 9000E 5G |
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MSM8996 |
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Release date | |
Q4 2020 |
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Q2 2016 |
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Lithography | |
5 nm FinFET EUV |
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14 nm |
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Cores | |
8 |
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4 |
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Threads | |
8 |
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4 |
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Base frequency | |
2.0 GHz |
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1.6 GHz |
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Turbo frequency | |
3.1 GHz |
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2.2 GHz |
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Energy cores | |
4x ARM Cortex-A55 @ 2.05 GHz |
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2x Qualcomm Kryo @ 1.6 GHz |
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High performance cores | |
1x ARM Cortex-A77 @ 3.13 GHz
3x ARM Cortex-A77 @ 2.54 GHz |
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2x Qualcomm Kryo @ 2.15 GHz |
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Cache memory | |
2 MB |
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1.5 MB |
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Max memory capacity | |
8 GB |
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6 GB |
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Memory types | |
LPDDR4X-2133, LPDDR5-2750 |
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LPDDR4 |
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Max # of memory channels | |
4 |
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4 |
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Max memory bandwidth | |
44 GB/s |
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29.8 GB/s |
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TDP | |
6 W |
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11 W |
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GPU integrated graphics | |
ARM Mali-G78 MP22 |
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Qualcomm Adreno 530 |
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GPU execution units | |
22 |
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2 |
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GPU shading units | |
352 |
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256 |
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GPU clock | |
759 MHz |
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624 MHz |
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GPU FP32 floating point | |
2,137.3 GFLOPS |
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498.5 GFLOPS |
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Socket | |
SoC |
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SoC |
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AnTuTu | |
738,905 |
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125,970 |
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(Android 64-bit) Geekbench 4 single core | |
4,756 |
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1,552 |
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(Android 64-bit) Geekbench 4 multi-core | |
13,978 |
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3,683 |
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(Android) Geekbench 5 single core | |
974 |
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289 |
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(Android) Geekbench 5 multi-core | |
3,544 |
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796 |
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(Multi-core / watt performance) Performance / watt ratio | |
2,330 pts / W |
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335 pts / W |
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The processor HiSilicon Kirin 9000E has more cores, the maximum frequency of HiSilicon Kirin 9000E is greater, that the PDT of HiSilicon Kirin 9000E is lower. The HiSilicon Kirin 9000E was designed earlier.
Performances :
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.
The difference is 487%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.
On Android 64-bit:
In single core, the difference is 206%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 280%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.
On Android:
In single core, the difference is 237%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 345%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.
Equivalence:
HiSilicon Kirin 9000E Intel equivalentHiSilicon Kirin 9000E AMD equivalentQualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 Intel equivalentQualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 AMD equivalentSee also:
HiSilicon Kirin 9000Smartphones with the processor HiSilicon Kirin 9000E:
Huawei Mate 40Smartphones with the processor Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820:
HTC 10LG G5LG V20Motorola Moto ZOnePlus 3Samsung Galaxy Note FE SD820Samsung Galaxy Note7 SD820Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge SD820Samsung Galaxy S7 SD820Sony Xperia X PerformanceSony Xperia XZSony Xperia XZsXiaomi Mi 5ZTE Axon 7