HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G vs Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2

Last updated:

CPU comparison with benchmarks


HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G or Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 - 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 Xeon E7-4809 v2 has 6 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.90 GHz. The CPU supports up to 1536 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 was released in Q1/2014.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Intel Xeon E7 (20)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3) CPU group Intel Xeon E7 v2 (20)
8 Generation 4
Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Ivy Bridge EX
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

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 Xeon E7-4809 v2 has 6 CPU cores and 12 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 is at 1.90 GHz.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
8 Cores 6
8 Threads 12
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
A-Core 1.90 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 Xeon E7-4809 v2
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 Xeon E7-4809 v2 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 no iGPU
0.60 GHz GPU frequency --
0.60 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
Bifrost 3 GPU Generation --
7 nm Technology
2 Max. displays
14 Compute units --
224 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 MP14 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 990E 5G can use up to 8 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 supports up to 1536 GB of memory in 4 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 42.6 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
LPDDR4X-4266 Memory DDR3-1333
8 GB Max. Memory 1536 GB
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 4 (Quad Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 42.6 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache --
2.00 MB L3 Cache 12.00 MB
-- PCIe version --
-- PCIe lanes --
-- PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is 6 W, while the Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 has a TDP of 105 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
6 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 105 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is manufactured in 7 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 is manufactured in 22 nm and has a 12.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
7 nm Technology 22 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
-- Socket LGA 2011
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2014
-- Release price 890 $
show more data show more data


Rate these processors

Here you can rate the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G to help other visitors make their purchasing decisions. The average rating is 0 stars (0 ratings). Rate now:
Here you can rate the Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 to help other visitors make their purchasing decisions. The average rating is 0 stars (0 ratings). Rate now:


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 (100%)
Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
6C 12T @ 1.90 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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
2855 (100%)
Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
6C 12T @ 1.90 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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
996 (100%)
Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
6C 12T @ 1.90 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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
3244 (100%)
Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
6C 12T @ 1.90 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 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
ARM Mali-G76 MP14 @ 0.60 GHz
645 (100%)
Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
Unknown Unknown

Popular comparisons containing this CPUs

1. Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2Intel Xeon E5-2648L v3 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2648L v3
2. Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 vs Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
3. Qualcomm Snapdragon 865HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
4. Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2Intel Xeon E7-8893 v2 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 vs Intel Xeon E7-8893 v2
5. Intel Xeon E7-4870 v2Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E7-4870 v2 vs Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
6. Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2Intel Celeron J1750 Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 vs Intel Celeron J1750
7. Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
8. Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
9. AMD A6-3500Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2 AMD A6-3500 vs Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2
10. Intel Core i3-4160TIntel Xeon E7-4809 v2 Intel Core i3-4160T vs Intel Xeon E7-4809 v2


back to index