HiSilicon Kirin 928 vs Intel Core i3-L13G4

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HiSilicon Kirin 928 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i3-L13G4
HiSilicon Kirin 928 Intel Core i3-L13G4

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 928 or Intel Core i3-L13G4 - 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 928 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 928 was released in Q3/2014.

The Intel Core i3-L13G4 has 5 cores with 5 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.80 GHz. The CPU supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i3-L13G4 was released in Q2/2020.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Core i3 (205)
HiSilicon Kirin 920 (3) CPU group Intel Core i L (2)
2 Generation 12
Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7 Architecture Lakefield
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 928 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 928 is 2.00 GHz while the Intel Core i3-L13G4 has 5 CPU cores and 5 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i3-L13G4 is at 0.80 GHz (2.80 GHz).
HiSilicon Kirin 928 Characteristic Intel Core i3-L13G4
8 Cores 5
8 Threads 5
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A15		 A-Core 0.80 GHz (2.80 GHz)
1x Sunny-Cove
1.30 GHz
4x Cortex-A7		 B-Core --
4x Tremont

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 928 Characteristic Intel Core i3-L13G4
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The HiSilicon Kirin 928 or Intel Core i3-L13G4 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-T628 MP4 GPU Intel UHD Graphics 12th Gen (48 EU)
0.60 GHz GPU frequency 0.20 GHz
0.60 GHz GPU (Turbo) 0.50 GHz
Midgard 2 GPU Generation 12
32nm Technology 10 nm
1 Max. displays 3
4 Compute units 48
64 Shader 384
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 64 GB
11 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-T628 MP4 GPU Intel UHD Graphics 12th Gen (48 EU)
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 Decode
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 928 can use up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Core i3-L13G4 supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 68.2 GB/s.
HiSilicon Kirin 928 Characteristic Intel Core i3-L13G4
LPDDR3-1600 Memory LPDDR4X-4266
Max. Memory 8 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 68.2 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 4.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 6
-- PCIe Bandwidth 5.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 928 is --, while the Intel Core i3-L13G4 has a TDP of 7 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
HiSilicon Kirin 928 Characteristic Intel Core i3-L13G4
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 7 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down 5 W
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 928 is manufactured in 28 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The Intel Core i3-L13G4 is manufactured in 10 nm and has a 4.00 MB cache.
HiSilicon Kirin 928 Characteristic Intel Core i3-L13G4
28 nm Technology 10 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv7-A (32 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2
-- Socket FC-CSP1016
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2014 Release date Q2/2020
-- Release price 309 $
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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 928 HiSilicon Kirin 928
ARM Mali-T628 MP4 @ 0.60 GHz
77 (20%)
Intel Core i3-L13G4 Intel Core i3-L13G4
Intel UHD Graphics 12th Gen (48 EU) @ 0.50 GHz
384 (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 928 HiSilicon Kirin 928
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i3-L13G4 Intel Core i3-L13G4
5C 5T @ 2.80 GHz
814 (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 928 HiSilicon Kirin 928
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i3-L13G4 Intel Core i3-L13G4
5C 5T @ 1.30 GHz
1320 (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 928 HiSilicon Kirin 928
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i3-L13G4 Intel Core i3-L13G4
5C 5T @ 2.80 GHz
652 (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 928 HiSilicon Kirin 928
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i3-L13G4 Intel Core i3-L13G4
5C 5T @ 1.30 GHz
1002 (100%)

Devices using this processor
HiSilicon Kirin 928 Intel Core i3-L13G4
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