HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs Intel Xeon W-2245

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon W-2245
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Intel Xeon W-2245

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G or Intel Xeon W-2245 - 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 Intel Xeon W-2245 has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 1024 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Intel Xeon W-2245 was released in Q4/2019.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Xeon W (83)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3) CPU group Intel Xeon W-2200/3200 (17)
8 Generation 7
Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Cascade Lake W
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor Intel Xeon W-2145
-- Successor Intel Xeon w5-2445

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 Intel Xeon W-2245 has 8 CPU cores and 16 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon W-2245 is at 3.90 GHz (4.70 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic Intel Xeon W-2245
8 Cores 8
8 Threads 16
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
A-Core 3.90 GHz (4.70 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 Intel Xeon W-2245
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 Intel Xeon W-2245 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 no iGPU
0.60 GHz GPU frequency --
-- GPU (Turbo) --
Bifrost 3 GPU Generation --
7 nm Technology
2 Max. displays
16 Compute units --
256 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory --
12 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-G76 MP16 GPU no iGPU
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 Intel Xeon W-2245 supports up to 1024 GB of memory in 4 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 93.8 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic Intel Xeon W-2245
LPDDR4X-2133 Memory DDR4-2933
8 GB Max. Memory 1024 GB
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 4 (Quad Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 93.8 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache --
2.00 MB L3 Cache 16.50 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 48
-- PCIe Bandwidth 47.3 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G is 6 W, while the Intel Xeon W-2245 has a TDP of 155 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic Intel Xeon W-2245
6 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 155 W
-- 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 Intel Xeon W-2245 is manufactured in 14 nm and has a 16.50 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic Intel Xeon W-2245
7 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 2066
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2019 Release date Q4/2019
-- Release price 667 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G (61%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G (32%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 (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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
757 (60%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 Intel Xeon W-2245
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
1268 (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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
2855 (28%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 Intel Xeon W-2245
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
10028 (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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
996 (61%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 Intel Xeon W-2245
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
1623 (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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
3244 (35%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 Intel Xeon W-2245
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
9368 (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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
ARM Mali-G76 MP16 @ 0.60 GHz
737 (100%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 Intel Xeon W-2245
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 Intel Xeon W-2245
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
19482 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. 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
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 Intel Xeon W-2245
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
210 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. 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
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon W-2245 Intel Xeon W-2245
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
1972 (100%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Intel Xeon W-2245
Huawei Mate 30 Pro Unknown

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