HiSilicon Kirin 650 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

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HiSilicon Kirin 650 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
HiSilicon Kirin 650 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 650 or Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 - 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 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores with 24 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.30 GHz. The CPU supports up to 768 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 was released in Q3/2013.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Xeon E5 (71)
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (4) CPU group Intel Xeon E5 v2 (15)
4 Generation 4
Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Ivy Bridge EP
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 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 CPU cores and 24 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 is at 2.50 GHz (3.30 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
8 Cores 12
8 Threads 24
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
A-Core 2.50 GHz (3.30 GHz)
1.70 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
B-Core --

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The HiSilicon Kirin 650 or Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 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 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 supports up to 768 GB of memory in 4 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 59.7 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
LPDDR3-933 Memory DDR3-1866
Max. Memory 768 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 4 (Quad Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 59.7 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache 3.00 MB
-- L3 Cache 30.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 40
-- PCIe Bandwidth 39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 650 is --, while the Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 has a TDP of 130 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 130 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 650 is manufactured in 16 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 is manufactured in 22 nm and has a 33.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Characteristic Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
16 nm Technology 22 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
-- Socket LGA 2011
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2016 Release date Q3/2013
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (22%)
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (12%)
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 (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 (22%)
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
12C 24T @ 3.30 GHz
741 (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 (12%)
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
12C 24T @ 2.90 GHz
6308 (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%)
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
12C 24T @ 3.30 GHz
689 (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%)
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
12C 24T @ 2.90 GHz
5012 (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%)
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
HiSilicon Kirin 650 HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
12C 24T @ 2.50 GHz
4740 (100%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 650 Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
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