HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs Samsung Exynos 2500

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9000S, vs Samsung Exynos 2500. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9000S and Samsung Exynos 2500
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
Samsung Exynos 2500
2213797
CPU274900500921
GPU150777928912
Memory231760410202
UX165804373762
NanoReview Score8232412213797
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
4940
Samsung Exynos 2500
n/a
Graphics Test29 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
1324
Samsung Exynos 2500
2648
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
4116
Samsung Exynos 2500
9881
File Compression172.6 MB/s386.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser125.5 pages/s234.1 pages/s
PDF Rendering136.4 MP/sec272.4 MP/sec
Background Blur11.8 frames/s36.6 frames/s
Photo Processing45.1 frames/s86.3 frames/s
Image Detection76.8 frames/s246.4 frames/s
HDR118.1 MP/sec313.6 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.15 MP/sec13 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.62 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.53 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X925
- 2x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A725
- 3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A725
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
Process SMIC Samsung
Cores count 8 10
Frequency 2620 3300
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
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 Samsung Xclipse 950
Architecture Maleoon RDNA 3.5
GPU Frequency 750 MHz 1300 MHz
Execution Units 4 8
Shader Units 256 n/a
Total shader 1024 n/a
Vulkan 1.0 1.4
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 Yes

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2750 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 77 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
- UFS 4.1
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
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 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 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced August, 2023 yr August, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename Hi36A0 S5E9955

Results

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

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