Huawei yesterday announced the Mate 40 series alongside the chips that power the new phones.
Kirin 9000 vs Apple A14 Bionic and Snapdragon 865 Plus in the words of Huawei
The Kirin 9000 features a 24-core Mali G78 GPU, which Huawei claims is 52 percent faster than the Adreno 650 GPU on the Snapdragon 865 Plus.
Someone tested the performance and power consumption of Kirin9000. Mali G78 consumes a lot of power. It is hopeless. I hope Samsung will abandon the ARM Mali GPU as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com/mqrYVpPbJa
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) October 23, 2020
Moving on, the Kirin 9000 also supposedly has a 2.4x faster Neural Processing Unit (NPU) than the Snapdragon 865 Plus.
Huawei also says that the chip’s CPU, GPU, and NPU are 25 percent, 50 percent, and 150 percent more power efficient, respectively, when compared to Qualcomm’s current flagship SoC.
Kirin 9000’s Image Signal Processor (ISP) is significantly more powerful than the one on the Kirin 990 and also offers better noise reduction and HDR video processing capabilities.
The Kirin 9000E will power the standard Mate 40
Huawei also announced the Kirin 9000E during the event. It powers the standard Mate 40, which doesn’t have a release date yet.
The Kirni 9000E is basically a stripped-down version of the flagship Kirin 9000 chip, with the same CPU, but a slightly less powerful NPU and GPU.