HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G vs Intel Core i7-9700TE

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i7-9700TE
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Intel Core i7-9700TE

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G or Intel Core i7-9700TE - 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 990E 5G 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 990E 5G was released in Q3/2019.

The Intel Core i7-9700TE has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.80 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-9700TE was released in Q2/2019.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Core i7 (298)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3) CPU group Intel Core i 9000 (34)
8 Generation 9
Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Coffee Lake S Refresh
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor Intel Core i7-10700TE

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is 2.86 GHz while the Intel Core i7-9700TE has 8 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-9700TE is at 1.80 GHz (3.80 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700TE
8 Cores 8
8 Threads 8
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
A-Core 1.80 GHz (3.80 GHz)
2.36 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
B-Core --
1.95 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
C-Core --

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700TE
HUAWEI HiAI 2.0 AI hardware --
Da Vinci Architecture. 1x Ascend Lite + 1x Ascend Tiny AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G or Intel Core i7-9700TE 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 MP14 GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
0.60 GHz GPU frequency 0.35 GHz
0.60 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.15 GHz
Bifrost 3 GPU Generation 9.5
7 nm Technology 14 nm
2 Max. displays 3
14 Compute units 24
224 Shader 192
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory 64 GB
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 MP14 GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G can use up to 8 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Core i7-9700TE supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 42.7 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700TE
LPDDR4X-4266 Memory DDR4-2666
8 GB Max. Memory 128 GB
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 42.7 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
2.00 MB L3 Cache 12.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 16
-- PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is 6 W, while the Intel Core i7-9700TE has a TDP of 35 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700TE
6 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 35 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is manufactured in 7 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The Intel Core i7-9700TE is manufactured in 14 nm and has a 12.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Core i7-9700TE
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
-- Socket LGA 1151-2
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2019 Release date Q2/2019
-- Release price 520 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G (79%)
Intel Core i7-9700TE (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G (64%)
Intel Core i7-9700TE (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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
757 (80%)
Intel Core i7-9700TE Intel Core i7-9700TE
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
948 (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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
2855 (61%)
Intel Core i7-9700TE Intel Core i7-9700TE
8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz
4670 (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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
996 (78%)
Intel Core i7-9700TE Intel Core i7-9700TE
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
1283 (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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
3244 (66%)
Intel Core i7-9700TE Intel Core i7-9700TE
8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz
4887 (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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
ARM Mali-G76 MP14 @ 0.60 GHz
645 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9700TE Intel Core i7-9700TE
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.15 GHz
442 (69%)

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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9700TE Intel Core i7-9700TE
8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz
10566 (100%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Intel Core i7-9700TE
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