Intel Xeon Gold 6342 vs HiSilicon Kirin 920. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  3 2
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300 HiSilicon Kirin 920

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
  2.80 GHz 1.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  24 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz 1.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  48 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 4x Cortex-A15
• B core
  -- 4x Cortex-A7

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
  no iGPU ARM Mali-T628 MP4
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.60 GHz
• Execution units
  4
• Shader
  64
• Max. displays
  1
• Generation
  Midgard 2
• DirectX Version
  11
• Technology
  32nm
• Release date
  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
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 920 and Intel Xeon Gold 6342. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 LPDDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  8 2
• PCIe version
  4.0
• PCIe lanes
  64

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6342 and HiSilicon Kirin 920 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  230 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6342 and Intel Xeon Gold 6342, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv7-A32 (32 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  36.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7
• Technology
  10 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4189 N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2014