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Huawei
Huawei Kirin 9000
Huawei's 5nm flagship chip, announced on October 22, 2020 with the Mate 40 series and used in the Mate 40 Pro. Its CPU pairs one Cortex-A77 core at 3.13GHz with three more at 2.54GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores at 2.05GHz, alongside a 24-core Mali-G78 GPU and an integrated 5G modem. Huawei cites up to 15.3 billion transistors.
Pros
- Built on a 5nm process with up to 15.3 billion transistors, per HiSilicon's own chip page
- Integrated 5G modem covering SA and NSA networks, sub-6GHz and mmWave
- 24-core Mali-G78 GPU; the Mate 40 Pro's median 3DMark Wild Life Extreme result in UL's database is 1,821
- Supports LPDDR5 and LPDDR4X memory, with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2
Cons
- Huawei's chip page gives no TDP, GPU clock or AI performance figure
- The Wild Life Extreme figure is a median of user-submitted results rather than a single controlled test
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: CPU still needs a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Huawei Kirin 9000
General
- Announced
- 2020
- Process
- 5 nm
- Architecture
- ARM (Cortex-A77 and Cortex-A55 cores)
CPU
- Cores
- 8
- Core configuration
- 1x3.13 GHz Cortex-A77 + 3x2.54 GHz Cortex-A77 + 4x2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
- Max clock
- 3.13 GHz
GPU
- GPU
- Arm Mali-G78 MP24
AI
- NPU
- HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture 2.0 (2x Ascend Lite + 1x Ascend Tiny)
Memory
- Memory type
- LPDDR5/LPDDR4X
Connectivity
- Modem
- Integrated 5G modem (SA/NSA, sub-6GHz and mmWave)
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi 6
- Bluetooth
- 5.2
Media
- Video capture
- 4K
Benchmarks
- AnTuTu 11
- 878,884Bottom 37%
- AnTuTu 11 (CPU)
- 296,136Bottom 32%
- AnTuTu 11 (GPU)
- 165,066Bottom 45%
- AnTuTu 11 (Memory)
- 199,045Top 47%
- AnTuTu 11 (UX)
- 218,637Bottom 27%
- 3DMark Wild Life Extreme
- 1,821Top 38%
Devices with the Huawei Kirin 9000
1 device in our catalog uses this chip
Quick answers
Is the Huawei Kirin 9000 good in 2026?
We haven't scored the Huawei Kirin 9000 yet: there are no published CPU benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. Huawei's 5nm flagship chip, announced on October 22, 2020 with the Mate 40 series and used in the Mate 40 Pro. Its CPU pairs one Cortex-A77 core at 3.13GHz with three more at 2.54GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores at 2.05GHz, alongside a 24-core Mali-G78 GPU and an integrated 5G modem. Huawei cites up to 15.3 billion transistors.
What is the Huawei Kirin 9000 AnTuTu score?
The Huawei Kirin 9000 scores 878,884 points in AnTuTu 11 (CPU 296,136, GPU 165,066, Memory 199,045, UX 218,637). That puts it in the top 66% of the 63 AnTuTu 11 results in this category in our database.
Which devices use the Huawei Kirin 9000?
One device in our catalog uses the Huawei Kirin 9000: Huawei Mate 40 Pro.
What are the key specs of the Huawei Kirin 9000?
Cores: 8 · Process: 5 nm · AnTuTu: 878,884 · GPU: Arm Mali-G78 MP24
What are the closest alternatives to the Huawei Kirin 9000?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, Qualcomm Snapdragon 870, MediaTek Dimensity 9000 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
