HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G CPU1 vs CPU2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G or Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G - 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 Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 16 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G was released in Q4/2022.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Qualcomm Snapdragon (102)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3) CPU group Qualcomm Snapdragon 780 (2)
8 Generation 4
Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Kryo 670
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
-- 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 Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G has 8 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G is at 2.70 GHz.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
8 Cores 8
8 Threads 8
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
A-Core 2.70 GHz
1x Kryo 670 Prime
2.09 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
B-Core 2.20 GHz
3x Kryo 670 Gold
1.86 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
C-Core 1.90 GHz
4x Kryo 670 Silver

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 Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
HUAWEI HiAI 2.0 AI hardware Qualcomm AI engine
Da Vinci Architecture. 1x Ascend Lite + 1x Ascend Tiny AI specifications Hexagon

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G or Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G 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 Qualcomm Adreno 642L
0.60 GHz GPU frequency --
-- GPU (Turbo) --
Bifrost 3 GPU Generation 5
7 nm Technology 6 nm
2 Max. displays 1
16 Compute units 4
256 Shader 384
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory 4 GB
12 DirectX Version 12.0

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 Qualcomm Adreno 642L
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode
Decode / Encode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

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 Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G supports up to 16 GB of memory in 4 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 51.2 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
LPDDR4X-2133 Memory LPDDR5-6400
8 GB Max. Memory 16 GB
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 4 (Quad Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 51.2 GB/s
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 Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G has a TDP of --. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
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 Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G is manufactured in 5 nm and has a 0.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
7 nm Technology 5 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 Q4/2022
-- Release price --
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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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
757 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
8C 8T @ 2.70 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%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
8C 8T @ 2.70 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%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
8C 8T @ 2.70 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%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
8C 8T @ 2.70 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 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
ARM Mali-G76 MP16 @ 0.60 GHz
737 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Qualcomm Adreno 642L @ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Huawei Mate 30 Pro Unknown

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