HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

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HiSilicon Kirin 960 HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000E . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1373 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3130MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +188%

1176

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +135%

3255

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +706%

2137

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

3130 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

15.3

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP22

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

759 MHz

8

Execution units

22

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1373 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

AI accelerator

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

AI accelerator

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Oct 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

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