HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  HiSilicon Kirin 950 HiSilicon Kirin 9000
• Family
  HiSilicon Kirin HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  4 9
• 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-A72 1x Cortex-A77
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A53 3x Cortex-A77
• Base Frequency
  1.8 GHz 2.05 GHz
• C-Core
  - 4x Cortex-A55
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.5 GHz 3.13 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  2.5 GHz 2.54 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 12
• Execution units
  4 24
• Generation
  Midgard 4 Vallhall 2
• GPU Frequency
  900 MHz 760 MHz
• GPU name
  ARM Mali-T880 MP4 ARM Mali-G78 MP24
• GPU Turbo
  900 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q4/2020
• Shader
  64 384
• Technology
  16 nm 5 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 9000 and HiSilicon Kirin 955. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  LPDDR3LPDDR4 LPDDR4X-2133LPDDR5-2750

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP HiSilicon Kirin 955 and HiSilicon Kirin 9000 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 955 and HiSilicon Kirin 9000, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53 Cortex-A77 / Cortex-A55
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q4/2020
• Technology
  16 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  None None