Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G

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Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 CPU1 vs CPU2 HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G

CPU comparison

Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 or HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G - 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 Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 has 4 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. Up to 768 GB of memory is supported in 6 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 was released in Q3/2017.

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.86 GHz. The CPU supports up to 8 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G was released in Q3/2019.
Intel Xeon Platinum (77) Family HiSilicon Kirin (29)
Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 (16) CPU group HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3)
1 Generation 8
Skylake Architecture Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 is 3.60 GHz (3.70 GHz) while the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G has 8 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is at 2.86 GHz.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
4 Cores 8
8 Threads 8
normal Core architecture hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
3.60 GHz (3.70 GHz) A-Core 2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
-- B-Core 2.36 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
-- C-Core 1.95 GHz
4x Cortex-A55

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.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
-- AI hardware HUAWEI HiAI 2.0
-- AI specifications Da Vinci Architecture. 1x Ascend Lite + 1x Ascend Tiny

Internal Graphics

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 or HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G 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.

no iGPU GPU ARM Mali-G76 MP14
GPU frequency 0.60 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 0.60 GHz
-- GPU Generation Bifrost 3
Technology 7 nm
Max. displays 2
-- Compute units 14
-- Shader 224
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 4 GB
-- 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.

no iGPU GPU ARM Mali-G76 MP14
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode / Encode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 can use up to 768 GB of memory in 6 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 128.1 GB/s. The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G supports up to 8 GB of memory in 4 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to --.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
DDR4-2666 Memory LPDDR4X-4266
768 GB Max. Memory 8 GB
6 (Hexa Channel) Memory channels 4 (Quad Channel)
128.1 GB/s Max. Bandwidth --
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
17.00 MB L3 Cache 2.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version --
48 PCIe lanes --
47.3 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 is 105 W, while the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G has a TDP of 6 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
105 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 6 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 is manufactured in 14 nm and has 17.00 MB cache. The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is manufactured in 7 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Characteristic HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
14 nm Technology 7 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 ISA extensions --
LGA 3647 Socket --
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization None
Yes AES-NI No
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Android
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2019
7000 $ 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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
757 (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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
2855 (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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
996 (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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
3244 (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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
ARM Mali-G76 MP14 @ 0.60 GHz
645 (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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
162 (100%)
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
0 (0%)

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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
827 (100%)
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Xeon Platinum 8156 HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
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