HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Intel Xeon Gold 5433N

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HiSilicon Kirin 955 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
HiSilicon Kirin 955 Intel Xeon Gold 5433N

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 955 or Intel Xeon Gold 5433N - 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 Gold 5433N has 20 cores with 40 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.10 GHz. The CPU supports up to 4096 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Gold 5433N was released in Q1/2023.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Xeon Gold (163)
HiSilicon Kirin 950 (2) CPU group Intel Xeon Gold 5400/6400 Edge Enhanced (8)
4 Generation 4
Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Sapphire Rapids Edge Enh.
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- 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 Gold 5433N has 20 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.30 GHz (4.10 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
8 Cores 20
8 Threads 40
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.50 GHz
4x Cortex-A72
A-Core 2.30 GHz (4.10 GHz)
1.80 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 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

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 no iGPU
0.90 GHz GPU frequency --
0.90 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
Midgard 4 GPU Generation --
16 nm Technology
2 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-T880 MP4 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 955 supports a maximum of GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Gold 5433N can connect up to 4096 GB of memory in 8 memory channels.

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
LPDDR4, LPDDR3 Memory
Max. Memory 4096 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 8 (Octa Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 256.0 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 37.50 MB
-- PCIe version 4.0
-- PCIe lanes 48
-- PCIe Bandwidth 94.5 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 Gold 5433N is 160 W.

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 160 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 955 has a 0.00 MB cache, while the Intel Xeon Gold 5433N cache has a total of 37.50 MB.

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
16 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
Q2/2016 Release date Q1/2023
-- Release price 1701 $
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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 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5433N Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
20C 40T @ 4.10 GHz
0 (0%)

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 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5433N Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
20C 40T @ 2.30 GHz
0 (0%)

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 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5433N Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Intel Xeon Gold 5433N
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