HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs HiSilicon Kirin 620

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G CPU1 vs CPU2 HiSilicon Kirin 620
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 620

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G or HiSilicon Kirin 620 - 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 HiSilicon Kirin 620 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 620 was released in Q1/2015.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family HiSilicon Kirin (29)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3) CPU group HiSilicon Kirin 620 (1)
8 Generation 3
Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Cortex-A53
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 HiSilicon Kirin 620 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 620 is at 1.20 GHz.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 620
8 Cores 4
8 Threads 4
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
A-Core 1.20 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
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 HiSilicon Kirin 620
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 HiSilicon Kirin 620 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 ARM Mali-450 MP4
0.60 GHz GPU frequency 0.53 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 0.53 GHz
Bifrost 3 GPU Generation Utgard
7 nm Technology 28nm
2 Max. displays 1
16 Compute units 4
256 Shader 64
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory --
12 DirectX Version 0

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 ARM Mali-450 MP4
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 HiSilicon Kirin 620 supports up to GB of memory in 1 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to --.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 620
LPDDR4X-2133 Memory LPDDR3
8 GB Max. Memory
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 1 (Single Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth --
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
2.00 MB L3 Cache --
-- PCIe version --
-- PCIe lanes --
-- PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is 6 W, while the HiSilicon Kirin 620 has a TDP of --. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 620
6 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) --
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is manufactured in 7 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The HiSilicon Kirin 620 is manufactured in 28 nm and has a 0.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 620
7 nm Technology 28 nm
Chiplet Chip design Chiplet
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8-A (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions --
-- Socket --
None Virtualization None
No AES-NI No
Android Operating systems Android
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2015
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G (100%)
HiSilicon Kirin 620 (13%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G (100%)
HiSilicon Kirin 620 (18%)

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%)
HiSilicon Kirin 620 HiSilicon Kirin 620
4C 4T @ 1.20 GHz
102 (13%)

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%)
HiSilicon Kirin 620 HiSilicon Kirin 620
4C 4T @ 1.20 GHz
505 (18%)

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%)
HiSilicon Kirin 620 HiSilicon Kirin 620
ARM Mali-450 MP4 @ 0.53 GHz
32 (4%)

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%)
HiSilicon Kirin 620 HiSilicon Kirin 620
4C 4T @ 1.20 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%)
HiSilicon Kirin 620 HiSilicon Kirin 620
4C 4T @ 1.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 620
Huawei Mate 30 Pro Unknown

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