HiSilicon Kirin 9000E 5G vs Samsung Exynos 990

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Which processor is better? We compared HiSilicon Kirin 9000E 5G with Samsung Exynos 990. Compare, analyze the specifications. Find out their scores in popular benchmarks (AnTuTu 10, GeekBench 6 Single-Core, GeekBench 6 Multi-Core) and who is the winner?

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77 3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77 4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55	2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Number of cores	8	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8.2-A	ARMv8.2-A
Lithography	5 nm	7 nm
Number of transistors	15300 million
TDP	6 Watt	9 Watt
Neural Processing	Ascend Lite + Ascend Tiny, HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture 2.0	NPU

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 16 GB	up to 16 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5	LPDDR5
Memory frequency	2750 MHz	2750 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 3.1

UFS 3.0

Graphics

GPU name	Mali-G78 MP22	Mali-G77 MP11
GPU Architecture	Valhall	Valhall
GPU frequency	760 MHz
Execution units	22	11
Shaders	352	176
DirectX	12
OpenCL API	2.1	2.1
OpenGL API	ES 3.2	ES 3.2
Vulkan API	1.2	1.3

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution	3840x2160	3840x2400
Max camera resolution		1x 108MP, 2x 25MP
Max Video Capture	4K@60fps	8K@30fps, 4K@120fps
Video codec support	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9

Wireless

4G network	Yes	Yes
5G network	Yes	Yes
Peak Download Speed	4.6 Gbps	7.35 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed	2.5 Gbps	3.67 Gbps
Wi-Fi	6 (802.11ax)	6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	5.2	5.1
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS NavIC	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS