HiSilicon Kirin 920 vs HiSilicon Kirin 930. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  HiSilicon Kirin HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  2 3
• CPU group
  HiSilicon Kirin 920 HiSilicon Kirin 930

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.30 GHz 1.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.70 GHz 2.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  1.70 GHz 2.00 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  4x Cortex-A15 4x Cortex-A53
• B core
  4x Cortex-A7 4x Cortex-A53

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

• GPU name
  ARM Mali-T628 MP4 ARM Mali-T628 MP4
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.60 GHz 0.60 GHz
• Execution units
  4 4
• Shader
  64 64
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  Midgard 2 Midgard 2
• DirectX Version
  11 11
• Technology
  32nm 32nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q4/2012

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 930 and HiSilicon Kirin 920. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

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

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP HiSilicon Kirin 920 and HiSilicon Kirin 930 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• Architecture
  Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7 Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q1/2015