HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000 . 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 9000 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3316 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
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 960
278916
HiSilicon Kirin 9000
+225%
907784
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 960
408
HiSilicon Kirin 9000
+210%
1266
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 960
1385
HiSilicon Kirin 9000
+154%
3529
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 960
265
HiSilicon Kirin 9000
+779%
2331
CPU
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
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
3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55
2360 MHz
Frequency
3130 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
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 MP24
1037 MHz
GPU frequency
759 MHz
8
Execution units
24
16
Shading units
64
4
Max size
16
0.2655 TFLOPS
FLOPS
2.3316 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
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
-
