HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs AMD GX-220IJ

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD GX-220IJ
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G AMD GX-220IJ

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G or AMD GX-220IJ - 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 990 4G has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.86 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G was released in Q3/2019.

The AMD GX-220IJ has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The AMD GX-220IJ was released in Q2/2018.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family AMD G (38)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3) CPU group AMD G-Series 3rd Gen (5)
8 Generation 3
Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Prairie Falcon Excavator+
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is 2.86 GHz while the AMD GX-220IJ has 2 CPU cores and 2 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD GX-220IJ is at 2.00 GHz (2.20 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic AMD GX-220IJ
8 Cores 2
8 Threads 2
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
A-Core 2.00 GHz (2.20 GHz)
2.09 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
B-Core --
1.86 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
C-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 990 4G Characteristic AMD GX-220IJ
HUAWEI HiAI 2.0 AI hardware --
Da Vinci Architecture. 1x Ascend Lite + 1x Ascend Tiny AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G or AMD GX-220IJ 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-G76 MP16 GPU AMD Radeon R2E
0.60 GHz GPU frequency 0.20 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 0.60 GHz
Bifrost 3 GPU Generation 0
7 nm Technology
2 Max. displays 0
16 Compute units 2
256 Shader 128
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory --
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-G76 MP16 GPU AMD Radeon R2E
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h264 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC No
Decode / Encode Codec VC-1 No
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G can use up to 8 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The AMD GX-220IJ supports up to GB of memory in 1 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 15.0 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic AMD GX-220IJ
LPDDR4X-2133 Memory DDR4-1866, DDR3-1600
8 GB Max. Memory
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 1 (Single Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 15.0 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache 1.00 MB
2.00 MB L3 Cache --
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 8
-- PCIe Bandwidth 7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is 6 W, while the AMD GX-220IJ has a TDP of 10 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic AMD GX-220IJ
6 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 10 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 15 W
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is manufactured in 7 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The AMD GX-220IJ is manufactured in 28 nm and has a 1.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic AMD GX-220IJ
7 nm Technology 28 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
-- Socket FP4
None Virtualization AMD-V
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2019 Release date Q2/2018
-- Release price --
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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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
ARM Mali-G76 MP16 @ 0.60 GHz
737 (100%)
AMD GX-220IJ AMD GX-220IJ
AMD Radeon R2E @ 0.60 GHz
154 (21%)

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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
757 (100%)
AMD GX-220IJ AMD GX-220IJ
2C 2T @ 2.20 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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
2855 (100%)
AMD GX-220IJ AMD GX-220IJ
2C 2T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)

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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
996 (100%)
AMD GX-220IJ AMD GX-220IJ
2C 2T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)

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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
3244 (100%)
AMD GX-220IJ AMD GX-220IJ
2C 2T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G AMD GX-220IJ
Huawei Mate 30 Pro Unknown

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