HiSilicon Kirin 930 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6454S

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HiSilicon Kirin 930 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon Gold 6454S
HiSilicon Kirin 930 Intel Xeon Gold 6454S

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 930 or Intel Xeon Gold 6454S - 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 930 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 930 was released in Q1/2015.

The Intel Xeon Gold 6454S has 32 cores with 64 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to 4096 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Gold 6454S was released in Q1/2023.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Xeon Gold (163)
HiSilicon Kirin 930 (2) CPU group Intel Xeon Gold 5400/6400 (25)
3 Generation 4
Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Sapphire Rapids
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 930 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 930 is 2.00 GHz while the Intel Xeon Gold 6454S has 32 CPU cores and 64 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Gold 6454S is at 2.20 GHz (3.40 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6454S
8 Cores 32
8 Threads 64
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
A-Core 2.20 GHz (3.40 GHz)
1.50 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 930 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6454S
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 930 or Intel Xeon Gold 6454S 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 no iGPU
0.60 GHz GPU frequency --
0.60 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
Midgard 2 GPU Generation --
32nm Technology
1 Max. displays
4 Compute units --
64 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-T628 MP4 GPU no iGPU
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No 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
No Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 930 can use up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Xeon Gold 6454S supports up to 4096 GB of memory in 8 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 307.2 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6454S
LPDDR3-1600 Memory DDR5-4400, DDR5-4800
Max. Memory 4096 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 8 (Octa Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 307.2 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 60.00 MB
-- PCIe version 5.0
-- PCIe lanes 80
-- PCIe Bandwidth 315.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 930 is --, while the Intel Xeon Gold 6454S has a TDP of 270 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6454S
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 270 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 930 is manufactured in 28 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The Intel Xeon Gold 6454S is manufactured in 10 nm and has a 60.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 6454S
28 nm Technology 10 nm
Chiplet Chip design Chiplet
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
-- Socket LGA 4677
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows, Linux
Q1/2015 Release date Q1/2023
-- Release price 3157 $
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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 930 HiSilicon Kirin 930
ARM Mali-T628 MP4 @ 0.60 GHz
77 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 6454S Intel Xeon Gold 6454S
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

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