Kirin 960 vs Kirin 9000S
We compared two 8-core processors: HiSilicon Kirin 960 (with Mali-G71 MP8 graphics) and Kirin 9000S (Maleoon 910). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
DeviceFacts Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 960
- Higher GPU frequency (~38%)
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
- Performs 7.7x better in floating-point computations
- Shows significantly better (up to 2.9x) AnTuTu 11 score β 1062K vs 366K
- Has a smaller size transistor (7 versus 16 nm)
- Supports 53% higher memory bandwidth (44 against 28.8 GB/s)
- 11% higher CPU clock speed (2620 vs 2360 MHz)
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 11
| CPU | 134649 | 432016 |
| GPU | 37113 | 115680 |
| Memory | 87722 | 259116 |
| UX | 107031 | 255394 |
| Total score | 366515 | 1062256 |
| Samples | Less than 3 | [8 tests] |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Asset compression | 80.6 MB/sec | 172.6 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 50.3 pages/sec | 125.5 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 50.1 Mpixels/sec | 136.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | 11.8 images/sec | 76.8 images/sec |
| HDR | 36.7 Mpixels/sec | 118.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | 2.04 images/sec | 11.8 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 9.64 images/sec | 45.1 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 978.5 Mpixels/sec | 5.15 Mpixels/sec |
| Samples | Less than 3 | 3 tests |
Compute Score (GPU)
| Background blur | 5.65 images/sec | 5.02 images/sec |
| Face detection | 3.43 images/sec | 2.75 images/sec |
| Horizon detection | 0.15 Gpixels/sec | 0.15 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge detection | 0.12 Gpixels/sec | 0.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian blur | 0.1 Gpixels/sec | 0.15 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature matching | 0.03 Gpixels/sec | 0.03 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo matching | 10.7 Gpixels/sec | 8.24 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle physics | 410 FPS | 311.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | Vulkan |
| Samples | - | Less than 3 |
3DMark
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Score | - | 303 |
| Graphics test | - | 2 FPS |
Recent User Tests
HiSilicon Kirin 960
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| π 2023-11-29 (antonio chen) | Geekbench 6 CPU | 403 / 1147 |
HiSilicon Kirin 9000S
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| π 2025-12-18 (Kirillkas) | AnTuTu 11 | 1096426 |
| π 2025-12-03 (ZzZQT x Invincible) | AnTuTu 11 | 1062256 |
| π 2025-11-15 -> Guevsace | AnTuTu 11 | 874659 |
| π 2025-10-14 (-waveTech) | AnTuTu 11 | 961938 |
| π 2025-10-09 (Jerryk) | AnTuTu 11 | 1033575 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Kirin 960 and Kirin 9000SCPU
| Architecture | 4x 2.36 GHz β Cortex-A73 4x 1.84 GHz β Cortex-A53 |
1x 2.62 GHz β TaiShan V120 3x 2.15 GHz β TaiShan V120 4x 1.53 GHz β Cortex-A510 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Frequency | 2360 MHz | 2620 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 64 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Process | 16 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 4 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 5 W | 7 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | SMIC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G71 MP8 | Maleoon 910 |
| Architecture | Bifrost 1st gen | Maleoon |
| GPU frequency | 1037 MHz | 750 MHz |
| Pipelines | 8 | 4 |
| Shading units | 12 | 256 |
| Total shaders | 96 | 1024 |
| FLOPS | 199.1 Gigaflops | 1536 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | Da Vinci |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 1600 MHz | 2750 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 28.8 Gb/s | 44 Gb/s |
| Max size | 4 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 |
| Max display resolution | 2560 x 1600 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 2x 16MP | - |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | - H.264 - H.265 - VP8 - VP9 |
- H.264 - H.265 - VP9 |
| Audio codecs | - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
- AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Balong 5000 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 4600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | October 2016 | August 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | Hi3660 | Hi36A0V120, Hi36A0V120 |
| Successor | - HiSilicon Kirin 9000S | - |
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