Intel Core i9-9980XE vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core i9 HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  9 9
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 9000X HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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
  3.00 GHz 2.05 GHz
• CPU Cores
  18 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.50 GHz 3.13 GHz
• CPU Threads
  36 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 1x Cortex-A77
• B core
  -- 3x Cortex-A77
• C core
  -- 4x Cortex-A55

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-G78 MP24
• GPU frequency
  0.76 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  24
• Shader
  384
• Max. displays
  1
• Generation
  Vallhall 2
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2020

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 9000 and Intel Core i9-9980XE. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 LPDDR4X-2133LPDDR5-2750
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  4 4
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  48

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i9-9980XE and HiSilicon Kirin 9000 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  165 W
• Tjunction max.
  84 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i9-9980XE and Intel Core i9-9980XE, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  25.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Skylake X Refresh Cortex-A77 / Cortex-A55
• Technology
  14 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2066 N/A
• Release date
  Q4/2018 Q4/2020