HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Intel Xeon E-2378G

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HiSilicon Kirin 955 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon E-2378G
HiSilicon Kirin 955 Intel Xeon E-2378G

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 955 or Intel Xeon E-2378G - 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 955 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.50 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 955 was released in Q2/2016.

The Intel Xeon E-2378G has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 5.10 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E-2378G was released in Q3/2021.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Xeon E (44)
HiSilicon Kirin 950 (2) CPU group Intel Xeon E-2300 (10)
4 Generation 3
Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Rocket Lake S
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor Intel Xeon E-2278G
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 955 is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.50 GHz. The Intel Xeon E-2378G has 8 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.80 GHz (5.10 GHz).
HiSilicon Kirin 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2378G
8 Cores 8
8 Threads 16
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.50 GHz
4x Cortex-A72		 A-Core 2.80 GHz (5.10 GHz)
1.80 GHz
4x Cortex-A53		 B-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 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2378G
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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-T880 MP4 GPU Intel UHD Graphics P750
0.90 GHz GPU frequency 0.35 GHz
0.90 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.30 GHz
Midgard 4 GPU Generation 12
16 nm Technology 14 nm
2 Max. displays 3
4 Compute units 64
64 Shader 256
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 32 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-T880 MP4 GPU Intel UHD Graphics P750
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode 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
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 955 supports a maximum of GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E-2378G can connect up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
HiSilicon Kirin 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2378G
LPDDR4, LPDDR3 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 4.00 MB
-- L3 Cache 16.00 MB
-- PCIe version 4.0
-- PCIe lanes 20
-- PCIe Bandwidth 39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The HiSilicon Kirin 955 has a TDP of --, that of the Intel Xeon E-2378G is 80 W.
HiSilicon Kirin 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2378G
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 80 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 955 has a 0.00 MB cache, while the Intel Xeon E-2378G cache has a total of 20.00 MB.
HiSilicon Kirin 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon E-2378G
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 955 (17%)
Intel Xeon E-2378G (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 955 (10%)
Intel Xeon E-2378G (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 955 HiSilicon Kirin 955
8C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
330 (17%)
Intel Xeon E-2378G Intel Xeon E-2378G
8C 16T @ 5.10 GHz
1908 (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 955 HiSilicon Kirin 955
8C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
989 (10%)
Intel Xeon E-2378G Intel Xeon E-2378G
8C 16T @ 2.80 GHz
10298 (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 955 HiSilicon Kirin 955
ARM Mali-T880 MP4 @ 0.90 GHz
122 (18%)
Intel Xeon E-2378G Intel Xeon E-2378G
Intel UHD Graphics P750 @ 1.30 GHz
666 (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 955 HiSilicon Kirin 955
8C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E-2378G Intel Xeon E-2378G
8C 16T @ 5.10 GHz
2348 (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 955 HiSilicon Kirin 955
8C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E-2378G Intel Xeon E-2378G
8C 16T @ 2.80 GHz
10189 (100%)

Devices using this processor
HiSilicon Kirin 955 Intel Xeon E-2378G
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