HiSilicon Kirin 9000 vs Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y

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HiSilicon Kirin 9000 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 or Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y - 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 9000 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.13 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 9000 was released in Q4/2020.

The Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y was released in Q1/2021.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Pentium (150)
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 (2) CPU group Intel Pentium 6000Y (1)
9 Generation 10
Cortex-A77 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Amber Lake U
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 9000 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 9000 is 3.13 GHz while the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y has 2 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y is at 1.10 GHz (3.40 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
8 Cores 2
8 Threads 4
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
3.13 GHz
1x Cortex-A77
A-Core 1.10 GHz (3.40 GHz)
2.54 GHz
3x Cortex-A77
B-Core --
2.05 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
C-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 9000 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The HiSilicon Kirin 9000 or Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y 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-G78 MP24 GPU Intel HD Graphics 615
0.76 GHz GPU frequency 0.30 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 0.90 GHz
Vallhall 2 GPU Generation 9.5
5 nm Technology 14nm
1 Max. displays 3
24 Compute units 24
384 Shader 192
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 16 GB
12 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-G78 MP24 GPU Intel HD Graphics 615
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 9000 can use up to GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y supports up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 29.9 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
LPDDR5-2750, LPDDR4X-2133 Memory LPDDR3-1866, DDR3-1600
Max. Memory 16 GB
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 29.9 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 4.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 10
-- PCIe Bandwidth 9.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 9000 is --, while the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y has a TDP of 5 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 5 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 7 W
-- TDP down 3.5 W
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 9000 is manufactured in 5 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y is manufactured in 14 nm and has a 4.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
5 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 BGA 1515
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems
Q4/2020 Release date Q1/2021
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 (100%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y (77%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 (100%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y (45%)

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 9000 HiSilicon Kirin 9000
8C 8T @ 3.13 GHz
1063 (100%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
821 (77%)

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 9000 HiSilicon Kirin 9000
8C 8T @ 3.13 GHz
3767 (100%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1680 (45%)

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 9000 HiSilicon Kirin 9000
ARM Mali-G78 MP24 @ 0.76 GHz
2332 (100%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Intel HD Graphics 615 @ 0.90 GHz
346 (15%)

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 9000 HiSilicon Kirin 9000
8C 8T @ 3.13 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1045 (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 9000 HiSilicon Kirin 9000
8C 8T @ 3.13 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1758 (100%)

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

The AnTuTu 8 Benchmark measures the performance of a SoC. AnTuTu benchmarks the CPU, GPU, Memory as well as the UX (User Experience) by simulating browser and app usage. AnTuTu can benchmark any ARM CPU that runs under Android or iOS. Devices may not be directly compareable if the benchmark has been performed under different operating systems.

In the AnTuTu 8 benchmark, the single-core performance of a processor is only slightly weighted. The evaluation consists of the multi-core performance of the processor, the speed of the RAM and the performance of the internal graphics.
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 HiSilicon Kirin 9000
8C 8T @ 3.13 GHz
683679 (100%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C 4T @ 1.10 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 9000 HiSilicon Kirin 9000
8C 8T @ 3.13 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
2980 (100%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
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