HiSilicon Kirin 920 vs HiSilicon Kirin 925. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  HiSilicon Kirin 920 HiSilicon Kirin 920
• Family
  HiSilicon Kirin HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  2 2
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  4x Cortex-A15 4x Cortex-A15
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A7 4x Cortex-A7
• Base Frequency
  1.3 GHz 1.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  1.7 GHz 1.8 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  1.7 GHz 1.8 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  11 11
• Execution units
  4 4
• Generation
  Midgard 2 Midgard 2
• GPU Frequency
  600 MHz 600 MHz
• GPU name
  ARM Mali-T628 MP4 ARM Mali-T628 MP4
• GPU Turbo
  600 MHz 600 MHz
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q4/2012
• Shader
  64 64
• Technology
  32nm 32nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode / Encode | No Conflicting source values: Decode / Encode | No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 925 and HiSilicon Kirin 920. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR3-1600 LPDDR3-1600

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP HiSilicon Kirin 920 and HiSilicon Kirin 925 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by HiSilicon Kirin 920 and HiSilicon Kirin 925, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7 Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) ARMv7-A32 (32 bit)
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q3/2014
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  None None