HiSilicon Kirin 620 vs Intel Core i5-9500E

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HiSilicon Kirin 620 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i5-9500E
HiSilicon Kirin 620 Intel Core i5-9500E

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 620 or Intel Core i5-9500E - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The HiSilicon Kirin 620 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.20 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 1 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 620 was released in Q1/2015.

The Intel Core i5-9500E has 6 cores with 6 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-9500E was released in Q2/2019.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Core i5 (331)
HiSilicon Kirin 620 (1) CPU group Intel Core i 9000 (34)
3 Generation 9
Cortex-A53 Architecture Coffee Lake S Refresh
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 620 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 620 is 1.20 GHz while the Intel Core i5-9500E has 6 CPU cores and 6 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-9500E is at 3.00 GHz (4.20 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 620 Characteristic Intel Core i5-9500E
4 Cores 6
4 Threads 6
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
1.20 GHz Frequency 3.00 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 4.20 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

HiSilicon Kirin 620 Characteristic Intel Core i5-9500E
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 620 or Intel Core i5-9500E has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

ARM Mali-450 MP4 GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
0.53 GHz GPU frequency 0.35 GHz
0.53 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.10 GHz
Utgard GPU Generation 9.5
28nm Technology 14 nm
1 Max. displays 3
4 Compute units 24
64 Shader 192
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 64 GB
0 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

ARM Mali-450 MP4 GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 620 can use up to GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Core i5-9500E supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 42.7 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 620 Characteristic Intel Core i5-9500E
LPDDR3 Memory DDR4-2666
Max. Memory 128 GB
1 (Single Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 42.7 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 9.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 16
-- PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 620 is --, while the Intel Core i5-9500E has a TDP of 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 620 Characteristic Intel Core i5-9500E
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 65 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 620 is manufactured in 28 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The Intel Core i5-9500E is manufactured in 14 nm and has a 9.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 620 Characteristic Intel Core i5-9500E
28 nm Technology 14 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
-- Socket LGA 1151-2
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q1/2015 Release date Q2/2019
-- Release price 260 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 620 (9%)
Intel Core i5-9500E (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 620 (12%)
Intel Core i5-9500E (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
HiSilicon Kirin 620 HiSilicon Kirin 620
4C 4T @ 1.20 GHz
102 (9%)
Intel Core i5-9500E Intel Core i5-9500E
6C 6T @ 4.20 GHz
1093 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
HiSilicon Kirin 620 HiSilicon Kirin 620
4C 4T @ 1.20 GHz
505 (12%)
Intel Core i5-9500E Intel Core i5-9500E
6C 6T @ 3.00 GHz
4280 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
HiSilicon Kirin 620 HiSilicon Kirin 620
ARM Mali-450 MP4 @ 0.53 GHz
32 (8%)
Intel Core i5-9500E Intel Core i5-9500E
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422 (100%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 620 Intel Core i5-9500E
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