HiSilicon Kirin 9030S

HiSilicon Kirin 9030S
  • GPU: Maleoon 935F
  • Cores: 8
  • Clock: 2700 MHz
HiSilicon Kirin 9030S – an 8-core chipset that was announced on April 20, 2026, and is manufactured using a 5-nanometer process technology. It has 1 core Taishan v124 Big at 2700 MHz, 3 cores Taishan v124 Mid at 2150 MHz, and 4 cores Taishan v124 Little at 1620 MHz.

Review

CPU Performance
46
Gaming Performance
22
Battery life
84
NanoReview Score
46
Compare HiSilicon Kirin 9030S with other SoCs

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
HiSilicon Kirin 9030S
1273046
CPU 475726
GPU 246367
Memory 279480
UX 271473
Total score 1273046

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
1273
Multi-Core Score
3894
Samples 2 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
4271
Samples 3 tests

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-07 -> internoAnTuTu1273046

Smartphones

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Phones with Kirin 9030SAnTuTu v11
1. Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max1622749
2. Huawei Pura 90 Pro Max1617928
3. Huawei Pura X View1322921
4. Huawei Pura 90s Pro1273046
5. Huawei Pura 90 Pro1247061

Specifications

Detailed specifications of the Kirin 9030S SoC with Maleoon 935F graphics

CPU

Architecture 1x 2.7 GHz – Taishan v124 Big
3x 2.15 GHz – Taishan v124 Mid
4x 1.62 GHz – Taishan v124 Little
Cores 8
Frequency 2700 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A
L2 cache 1 MB
L3 cache 4 MB
Process 5 nanometers
Manufacturing SMIC

Graphics

GPU name Maleoon 935F
Architecture Maleoon
GPU frequency 933 MHz
Pipelines 3
Shading units 256
Total shaders 768
FLOPS 1433.1 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3
OpenCL version 3.0
DirectX version 12

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Da Vinci

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 4266 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 16 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
Video capture 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 6000
4G support LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7
Bluetooth 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced April 2026
Class Mid range

Comments

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ANTI WUMAO September 1, 2026 at 11:38 PM
$1000 phone only for this garbage chip, lol
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Zero May 7, 2026 at 07:47 PM
So much nerfs... made me wonder if it was supposed to be the Kirin 8030 instead.
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Joe April 29, 2026 at 11:23 AM
1x 3 GHz – Taishan Big -> 2.7 GHz Taishan v124 Big 3x 2.27 GHz – Taishan Mid -> 2.15 GHz Taishan v124 Mid 4x 1.72 GHz – Taishan Little -> 1.62 GHz Taishan v124 Little L2 cache -> 1MB L3 cache -> 4MB SLC -> 6MB GPU name Maleoon 920 -> Maleoon 935F GPU frequency -> 933 MHz Pipelines 4 -> 3 Total shaders 1024 -> 768 FLOPS -> 1433.1 Gigaflops Memory frequency -> 4266 MHz Bus 4x 16 Bit -> 2x 16 Bit Max bandwidth -> 34.1 GB/s
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Serhii April 30, 2026 at 06:36 AM
Appreciate your help, Joe.
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Joe May 4, 2026 at 09:30 PM
Serhii, NP, specs still not updated though.
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Serhii May 5, 2026 at 07:30 AM
Joe, It is on my task list, Joe :) Thanks
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Zero July 4, 2026 at 01:56 PM
Serhii, BTW, can we separate the Kirin 9030 and 9030 Pro? Geekerwan shown what are the difference. So we have 3 chips: - Kirin 9030 Pro (top tier) - Kirin 9030 (cut down) - Kirin 9030S (another cut down)
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