HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9000S, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9000S and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
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 8s Gen 4
2082208
CPU274900475806
GPU150777881311
Memory231760390065
UX165804335026
NanoReview Score8232412082208
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
4940
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
n/a
Graphics Test29 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
1324
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
2154
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
4116
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
6880
File Compression172.6 MB/s293.2 MB/s
HTML5 Browser125.5 pages/s196.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering136.4 MP/sec221.6 MP/sec
Background Blur11.8 frames/s24.1 frames/s
Photo Processing45.1 frames/s63.9 frames/s
Image Detection76.8 frames/s154.6 frames/s
HDR118.1 MP/sec217.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.15 MP/sec8.01 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.62 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.53 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 1x 3.21 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2620 3210
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache n/a 6 MB
Process tech. 7 nm 4 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 Adreno 825
Architecture Maleoon Adreno 800
GPU Frequency 750 MHz 1150 MHz
Execution Units 4 2
Shader Units 256 512
Total shader 1024 1024
FLOPS n/a 2355.2 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.0 1.3
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
DirectX 12 12

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 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2750 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 24 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 4.0
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Camera n/a 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 5000 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 4600 MB/s Up to 4200 MB/s
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 April, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename Hi36A0 SM8735

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 the clear winner in this comparison.

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