Intel Processor N100 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Processor N HiSilicon Kirin
• CPU group
  Intel Processor N50/N100/N200 HiSilicon Kirin 960
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  13 5

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.

• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.80 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.

• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Alder Lake) ARM Mali-G71 MP8
• GPU frequency
  0.75 GHz 0.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  24 8
• Shader
  192 256
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  12 Bifrost 1
• Technology
  10 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2023 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 960 and Intel Processor N100. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR5-4800 LPDDR4-1600
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 6 GB
• Memory channels
  1 (Single Channel) 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Processor N100 and HiSilicon Kirin 960 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• Tjunction max.
  105 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Processor N100 and Intel Processor N100, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  10 nm 16 nm
• Socket
  BGA N/A
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  6.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Alder Lake N Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2
• Release date
  Q1/2023 Q4/2016