The Kirin 9000 loses in benchmarks compared to its almost 3-year-older predecessor

Popular CPU comparison site Nanorevision took hold of the new Huawei Kirin 9000s chipset and placed it alongside its predecessor, the Kirin 9000.

The result is mostly predictable: the new chip is slightly faster in CPU tests and much slower in graphics tasks, and is also less efficient due to its dated architecture.

The CPU uses four TaiShan V120 cores (1x 2.62 GHz, 3x 2.15 GHz) and four Cortex-A510 (at 1.53 GHz), while the transistor size is 7 nm. Compare that to the four Cortex-A77s (1x 3.13 GHz, 3x 2.54 GHz) in the almost three-year-older 5nm Kirin 9000 and four Cortex-A55s (2.05 GHz).

Graphically, the Kirin 9000’s Maleoon 910 is inferior to the Kirin 9000’s Mali-G78.

We have our Kirin 9000 benchmarks compared to a 2021 Snapdragon 888 to compare performance. The Kirin 9000 is at the helm of a select few phones, including the new Mate 60 series and the upcoming Huawei Nova 12 series.