HiSilicon Kirin 658 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210T

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HiSilicon Kirin 658 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
HiSilicon Kirin 658 Intel Xeon Silver 4210T

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 658 or Intel Xeon Silver 4210T - 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 658 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.35 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 658 was released in Q2/2016.

The Intel Xeon Silver 4210T has 10 cores with 20 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to 1024 GB of memory in 6 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Silver 4210T was released in Q1/2020.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Xeon Silver (27)
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (4) CPU group Intel Xeon Silver 4200 (11)
4 Generation 2
Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Cascade Lake
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor Intel Xeon Silver 4110
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 658 is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.35 GHz. The Intel Xeon Silver 4210T has 10 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.30 GHz (3.20 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 658 Characteristic Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
8 Cores 10
8 Threads 20
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.35 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
A-Core 2.30 GHz (3.20 GHz)
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 658 Characteristic Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.

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 658 supports a maximum of GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Silver 4210T can connect up to 1024 GB of memory in 6 memory channels.

HiSilicon Kirin 658 Characteristic Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
LPDDR3-933 Memory DDR4-2400
Max. Memory 1024 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 6 (Hexa Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 115.2 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 13.75 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 48
-- PCIe Bandwidth 47.3 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The HiSilicon Kirin 658 has a TDP of --, that of the Intel Xeon Silver 4210T is 95 W.

HiSilicon Kirin 658 Characteristic Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 95 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 658 has a 0.00 MB cache, while the Intel Xeon Silver 4210T cache has a total of 13.75 MB.

HiSilicon Kirin 658 Characteristic Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
16 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, AVX-512
-- Socket LGA 3647
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2016 Release date Q1/2020
-- Release price 555 $
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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 658 HiSilicon Kirin 658
8C 8T @ 2.35 GHz
183 (100%)
Intel Xeon Silver 4210T Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
10C 20T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

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 658 HiSilicon Kirin 658
8C 8T @ 2.35 GHz
815 (100%)
Intel Xeon Silver 4210T Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
10C 20T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)

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 658 HiSilicon Kirin 658
ARM Mali-T830 MP2 @ 0.90 GHz
61 (100%)
Intel Xeon Silver 4210T Intel Xeon Silver 4210T
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

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