HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9000S, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9000S and Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3
453329
CPU274900147463
GPU15077787617
Memory23176092706
UX165804125543
NanoReview Score823241453329
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
4940
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3
n/a
Graphics Test29 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
1324
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3
940
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
4116
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3
2115
File Compression172.6 MB/s107 MB/s
HTML5 Browser125.5 pages/s56.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering136.4 MP/sec82.5 MP/sec
Background Blur11.8 frames/s5.26 frames/s
Photo Processing45.1 frames/s22.3 frames/s
Image Detection76.8 frames/s42.4 frames/s
HDR118.1 MP/sec66.7 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.15 MP/sec2.88 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.62 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.53 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 2x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A78
- 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2620 2300
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
Process tech. 7 nm 6 nm
Power (TDP) 7 W 4 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 910 Adreno 619
Architecture Maleoon Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 750 MHz 900 MHz
Execution Units 4 2
Shader Units 256 128
Total shader 1024 256
FLOPS n/a 460.8 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.0 1.1
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
DirectX 12 12.1

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Da Vinci Hexagon

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x16 bit
Bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 12 GB

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 2.2
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2520x1080 pixels
Camera n/a 1x108 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 5000 Snapdragon X51
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 4600 MB/s Up to 2500 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s Up to 1500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 5
Bluetooth version 5.2 5.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced August, 2023 yr June, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename Hi36A0 SM6375-AC

Results

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

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