HiSilicon Kirin 9000

The HiSilicon Kirin 9000 is an ARM based high-end octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablet, which was introduced with the Huawei P40 Pro. It integrates eight CPU cores in three clusters. A single high performance ARM Cortex-A77 cores with up to 3.13 GHz for fast single core performance. Three more performance cores (same Cortex-A77 architecture) with up to 2.54 GHz and four efficiency cores based on the ARM Cortex-A55 architecture with up to 2.05 GHz. All 8 cores can be used at once (big.LITTLE).

For AI acceleration (NPU), the Kirin 9000 integrates the Da Vinci Architecture 2.0 (2 * Ascend Lite and 1 * Ascend Tiny). Huawei specifies 8 MB of system cache (most likely shared for CPU, GPU and AI) and can access LPDDR4X and LPDDR5 main memory. The integrated 5G modem supports SA&NSA, Sub-6G and mmWave. WiFi 6 including VHT160 and Bluetooth 5.2 are also integrated in the chip.

The CPU performance is in the top tier of mobile SoCs of 2020 and slightly above the Snapdragon 865+ and on a level with the older Apple A13 Bionic SoC.

The Kirin 9000 is produced at TSMC in the modern 5nm process.

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics

59268 Points (61%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei Mate 40 Pro	Mali-G78 MP24	8192 MB			59268

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q -95%

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Intel Core i7-7660U -3%

Intel Core i7-8750H -3%

Intel Core i7-8809G -2%

AMD Ryzen 7 3750H -2%

Intel Core i7-5775C -2%

Intel Core i7-10510U -1%

Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6 -1%

Intel Core i5-9300H -1%

Intel Core i7-9750H 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

Intel Xeon E-2176M 1%

Intel Core i7-8665U 1%

Intel Core i5-7500 1%

Intel Core i7-10710U 1%

Intel Core i5-10300H 1%

Intel Core i5-10310U 1%

Intel Core i7-4790K 3%

Intel Core i5-8500T 4%

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X 4%

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 63%

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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics

5602 Points (70%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei Mate 40 Pro	Mali-G78 MP24	8192 MB			5602

Mediatek MT6739WW -88%

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MediaTek Dimensity 820 -29%

Samsung Exynos 990 -24%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ / 855 Plus -22%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ (Plus) -18%

HiSilicon Kirin 820 -17%

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G -16%

HiSilicon Kirin 990 -8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 -4%

MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ -4%

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

Intel Core i9-9980HK 42%

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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics

5568 Points (97%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei Mate 40 Pro	Mali-G78 MP24	8192 MB			5568

Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 MSM8909 -90%

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Samsung Exynos 990 -24%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ / 855 Plus -22%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ (Plus) -17%

HiSilicon Kirin 820 -17%

Apple A12X Bionic -16%

HiSilicon Kirin 990 -12%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 -8%

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G -4%

MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *

1671 ms (3%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei Mate 40 Pro	Mali-G78 MP24	8192 MB		Huawei Browser 11	1671.2

Apple A14 Bionic -72%

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Intel Core i5-6200U -9%

Intel Core i3-7100U -9%

Intel Core i5-4210M -8%

AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G -7%

Intel Core i5-5257U -6%

Intel Core i7-6600U -4%

Intel Pentium Gold 4415U -1%

Apple A9 -1%

Intel Core i7-4870HQ 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

Intel Core i3-7130U 1%

Intel Core m3-6Y30 1%

AMD Ryzen 3 2200U 1%

Intel Core i7-4980HQ 3%

Intel Core m3-8100Y 4%

Intel Core i3-6006U 5%

Intel Core i7-4700HQ 5%

Intel Core i7-6820HQ 10%

Intel Pentium Gold 5405U 11%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227A 3459%

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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score

26597 Points (43%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei Mate 40 Pro	Mali-G78 MP24	8192 MB		Huawei Browser 11	26597

Marvell PXA1088 -96%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ / 855 Plus -7%

Intel Core m3-7Y30 -7%

Intel Core i5-5257U -6%

AMD Ryzen 7 2700U -5%

Intel Core i5-6200U -5%

Apple A10 Fusion -5%

Intel Core m5-6Y54 -3%

AMD Ryzen 5 2500U -3%

Intel Core m5-6Y57 -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ (Plus) 0%

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 1%

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 3%

Intel Core i7-4870HQ 4%

AMD Ryzen 3 3300U 4%

Intel Core i3-8130U 5%

Intel Core i5-7Y54 5%

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U 5%

Intel Core i5-6198DU 5%

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Apple M1 134%

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Reviews for the Kirin 9000 processor

Huawei Mate 40 Pro (ARM Mali-G78 MP24, 6.76")
» Huawei Mate 40 Pro review - Top smartphone with handicap - Review
» Huawei Mate 40 Pro - External Review
» Huawei Mate 40 Pro: A good choice despite the lack of Google services -

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