HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9000S, vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9000S and MediaTek Dimensity 9500
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
823241
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
3449366
CPU274900786574
GPU1507771422243
Memory231760725851
UX165804514698
NanoReview Score8232413449366
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
4940
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
n/a
Graphics Test29 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
1324
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
3381
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
4116
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
11289
File Compression172.6 MB/sn/a
HTML5 Browser125.5 pages/sn/a
PDF Rendering136.4 MP/secn/a
Background Blur11.8 frames/sn/a
Photo Processing45.1 frames/sn/a
Image Detection76.8 frames/sn/a
HDR118.1 MP/secn/a
Ray Tracing5.15 MP/secn/a

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.62 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.53 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 2/4 (Cortex-X930 Travis)
- 6/2.4 (Cortex-A730 Gelas)
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2620 4000
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L3 Cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 7 nm 3 nm
Power (TDP) 7 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 910 n/a
Architecture Maleoon n/a
GPU Frequency 750 MHz 1000 MHz
Execution Units 4 n/a
Shader Units 256 n/a
Total shader 1024 n/a
FLOPS n/a 5315 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.0 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Da Vinci MediaTek NPU 9.0
GPU Frequency n/a 100 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2750 MHz n/a
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 44 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 16 GB n/a

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type - UFS 3.1
- UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.1
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels n/a
Camera n/a 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3

Connectivity

Modem Balong 5000 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 4600 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 7
Bluetooth version 5.2 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced August, 2023 yr September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename Hi36A0 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider HiSilicon Kirin 9000S the clear winner in this comparison.

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