HiSilicon Kirin 9010 vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9010, vs HiSilicon Kirin 659. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9010 and HiSilicon Kirin 659
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 9010
956941
HiSilicon Kirin 659
103757
CPU32667546276
GPU1923327090
Memory24441617518
UX19351832873
NanoReview Score956941103757
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
1421
HiSilicon Kirin 659
214
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
4323
HiSilicon Kirin 659
809
File Compression170.6 MB/s62.5 MB/s
HTML5 Browser126.9 pages/s27.2 pages/s
PDF Rendering142.9 MP/sec39 MP/sec
Background Blur12.3 frames/s0.84 frames/s
Photo Processing43.8 frames/s6.86 frames/s
Image Detection81.5 frames/s10 frames/s
HDR120.2 MP/sec26.1 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.08 MP/sec1.71 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 4x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
- 4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Process SMIC n/a
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2300 2360
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
L2 cache 1 MB n/a
L3 Cache 8 MB n/a
Process tech. 7 nm 16 nm
Transistor count n/a 4 billion

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 910 Mali-T830 MP2
Architecture Maleoon Midgard 4th gen
GPU Frequency 750 MHz 900 MHz
Execution Units 4 2
Shader Units 256 16
Total shader 1024 32
FLOPS 1536 GFLOPS 57.6 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.0 1.0
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
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 No

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR3
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 933 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x32 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 16 GB 4 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
eMMC 5.1
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 1920x1200 pixels
Camera n/a 1x16 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
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 5000 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 4600 MB/s Up to 300 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s Up to 50 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 4
Bluetooth version 5.2 4.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou

Other

Announced April, 2024 yr January, 2017 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename Hi36A0V121 Hi6250

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider HiSilicon Kirin 9010 the clear winner in this comparison.

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