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Huawei
Huawei Kirin 9000E
HiSilicon's 5 nm 5G chip, announced on 22 October 2020 alongside the Kirin 9000 and used in the standard Huawei Mate 40, which went on sale on 21 December 2020. It keeps the Kirin 9000's 1+3+4 layout of Cortex-A77 and Cortex-A55 cores but pairs it with a 22-core Mali-G78 GPU and a smaller NPU. It also powers the Wi-Fi MatePad Pro 12.6 (2021).
Pros
- Built on a 5 nm process with up to 15.3 billion transistors, per HiSilicon's own chip page
- 1+3+4 CPU layout: one Cortex-A77 core at 3.13 GHz, three at 2.54 GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores at 2.05 GHz, the same clocks HiSilicon lists for the Kirin 9000
- Integrated 5G modem covering SA and NSA networks, sub-6GHz and mmWave
- 22-core Mali-G78 GPU; the Mate 40's median 3DMark Wild Life Extreme result in UL's database is 1,775
- Supports LPDDR5 and LPDDR4X memory; the Mate 40 lists Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2
Cons
- Two fewer GPU cores than the Kirin 9000's 24-core Mali-G78, and one Ascend Lite NPU core where the Kirin 9000 has two, per HiSilicon's chip pages
- Its Cortex-A77 big cores are a generation older than the Cortex-A78 cores in rival Snapdragon 888 and Dimensity 1200 phones
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: CPU still needs a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Huawei Kirin 9000E
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 MP22
AI
- NPU
- HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture 2.0 (1x 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@60fps
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Wild Life Extreme
- 1,775Top 29%
Devices with the Huawei Kirin 9000E
1 device in our catalog uses this chip
Quick answers
Is the Huawei Kirin 9000E good in 2026?
We haven't scored the Huawei Kirin 9000E yet: there are no published CPU benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. HiSilicon's 5 nm 5G chip, announced on 22 October 2020 alongside the Kirin 9000 and used in the standard Huawei Mate 40, which went on sale on 21 December 2020. It keeps the Kirin 9000's 1+3+4 layout of Cortex-A77 and Cortex-A55 cores but pairs it with a 22-core Mali-G78 GPU and a smaller NPU. It also powers the Wi-Fi MatePad Pro 12.6 (2021).
Which devices use the Huawei Kirin 9000E?
One device in our catalog uses the Huawei Kirin 9000E: Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 (2021).
What are the key specs of the Huawei Kirin 9000E?
Cores: 8 · Process: 5 nm · GPU: Arm Mali-G78 MP22
What are the closest alternatives to the Huawei Kirin 9000E?
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.
