HiSilicon Kirin 650 vs AMD EPYC 9654P

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HiSilicon Kirin 650 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD EPYC 9654P
HiSilicon Kirin 650 AMD EPYC 9654P

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 650 or AMD EPYC 9654P - 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 650 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.00 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 650 was released in Q2/2016.

The AMD EPYC 9654P has 96 cores with 192 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 6144 GB of memory in 12 memory channels. The AMD EPYC 9654P was released in Q4/2022.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family AMD EPYC (129)
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (4) CPU group AMD EPYC 9004 (21)
4 Generation 4
Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Genoa / Genoa-X (Zen 4)
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 650 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 650 is 2.00 GHz while the AMD EPYC 9654P has 96 CPU cores and 192 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD EPYC 9654P is at 2.40 GHz (3.70 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic AMD EPYC 9654P
8 Cores 96
8 Threads 192
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
A-Core 2.40 GHz (3.70 GHz)
96x Zen 4
1.70 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
B-Core --

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 650 Characteristic AMD EPYC 9654P
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 650 or AMD EPYC 9654P 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-T830 MP2 GPU no iGPU
0.90 GHz GPU frequency --
-- GPU (Turbo) --
Midgard 4 GPU Generation --
28nm Technology
2 Max. displays
2 Compute units --
32 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory --
11 DirectX Version --

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-T830 MP2 GPU no iGPU
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h264 No
No Codec VP9 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC No
No Codec VC-1 No
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 650 can use up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The AMD EPYC 9654P supports up to 6144 GB of memory in 12 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 460.8 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic AMD EPYC 9654P
LPDDR3-933 Memory DDR5-4800
Max. Memory 6144 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 12
-- Max. Bandwidth 460.8 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache 96.00 MB
-- L3 Cache 384.00 MB
-- PCIe version 5.0
-- PCIe lanes 128
-- PCIe Bandwidth 504.1 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 650 is --, while the AMD EPYC 9654P has a TDP of 360 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic AMD EPYC 9654P
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 360 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 400 W
-- TDP down 320 W
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 650 is manufactured in 16 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The AMD EPYC 9654P is manufactured in 5 nm and has a 480.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic AMD EPYC 9654P
16 nm Technology 5 nm
Chiplet Chip design Chiplet
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, BFLOAT16, VNNI
-- Socket SP5
None Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows Server 2022, Linux, Windows 11
Q2/2016 Release date Q4/2022
-- Release price 10625 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (11%)
AMD EPYC 9654P (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (1%)
AMD EPYC 9654P (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 650 HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
163 (11%)
AMD EPYC 9654P AMD EPYC 9654P
96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz
1529 (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 650 HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
763 (1%)
AMD EPYC 9654P AMD EPYC 9654P
96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz
79486 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
HiSilicon Kirin 650 HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD EPYC 9654P AMD EPYC 9654P
96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz
2025 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
HiSilicon Kirin 650 HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD EPYC 9654P AMD EPYC 9654P
96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz
23214 (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 650 HiSilicon Kirin 650
ARM Mali-T830 MP2 @ 0.90 GHz
61 (100%)
AMD EPYC 9654P AMD EPYC 9654P
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
HiSilicon Kirin 650 HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD EPYC 9654P AMD EPYC 9654P
96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz
126082 (100%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 650 AMD EPYC 9654P
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