HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Intel Xeon E-2314

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon E-2314
HiSilicon Kirin 659 Intel Xeon E-2314

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 659 or Intel Xeon E-2314 - 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 659 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.36 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 659 was released in Q2/2016.

The Intel Xeon E-2314 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.50 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E-2314 was released in Q3/2021.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Xeon E (44)
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (4) CPU group Intel Xeon E-2300 (10)
4 Generation 3
Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Rocket Lake S
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 659 is 2.36 GHz while the Intel Xeon E-2314 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon E-2314 is at 2.80 GHz (4.50 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2314
8 Cores 4
8 Threads 4
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.36 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
A-Core 2.80 GHz (4.50 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 659 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2314
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 or Intel Xeon E-2314 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 659 can use up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Xeon E-2314 supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 51.2 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2314
LPDDR3-933 Memory DDR4-3200
Max. Memory 128 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 51.2 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache 2.00 MB
-- L3 Cache 8.00 MB
-- PCIe version 4.0
-- PCIe lanes 20
-- PCIe Bandwidth 39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 659 is --, while the Intel Xeon E-2314 has a TDP of 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2314
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 65 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 is manufactured in 16 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The Intel Xeon E-2314 is manufactured in 14 nm and has a 10.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2314
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 1200
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2016 Release date Q3/2021
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 659 (12%)
Intel Xeon E-2314 (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 659 (21%)
Intel Xeon E-2314 (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 659 HiSilicon Kirin 659
8C 8T @ 2.36 GHz
193 (12%)
Intel Xeon E-2314 Intel Xeon E-2314
4C 4T @ 4.50 GHz
1604 (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 659 HiSilicon Kirin 659
8C 8T @ 2.36 GHz
893 (21%)
Intel Xeon E-2314 Intel Xeon E-2314
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
4339 (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 659 HiSilicon Kirin 659
8C 8T @ 2.36 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E-2314 Intel Xeon E-2314
4C 4T @ 4.50 GHz
2068 (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 659 HiSilicon Kirin 659
8C 8T @ 2.36 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E-2314 Intel Xeon E-2314
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
4788 (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 659 HiSilicon Kirin 659
ARM Mali-T830 MP2 @ 0.90 GHz
61 (100%)
Intel Xeon E-2314 Intel Xeon E-2314
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Intel Xeon E-2314
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