HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

The HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G operates with:

CPU Cores 8.

CPU Threads: 8.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: 2.36 GHz base 2.86 GHz all cores.

TDP: 6 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: N/A.

This version includes

2.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 4 memory channels to support LPDDR4X-4266 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 7 nm

Virtualization None.

The product was released on Q3/2019.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Family:

HiSilicon Kirin

CPU group:

HiSilicon Kirin 990

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.95 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

2.36 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

LPDDR4X-4266

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

LPDDR4X-4266

GPU name:

ARM Mali-G76 MP16

GPU frequency:

0.60 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

256

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

7 nm

Release date:

Q3/2018

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

2.00 MB

Release date:

Q3/2019

Socket:

N/A

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

6 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

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.

AMD Athlon Gold 3150U 770 (41%)

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Intel Core i7-5650U 770 (41%)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G 767 (41%)

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G 767 (41%)

Intel Xeon Silver 4112 766 (41%)

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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.

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE 2897 (8%)

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G 2879 (8%)

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G 2879 (8%)

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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.

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G 737 (7%)

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