Is Kirin 9000SL a flagship chip?

Huawei's Nova12 series has been very popular recently. This time, Huawei has brought two new Kirin chips to the Nova series: Kirin 8000 and Kirin 9000SL.Among them, Kirin 9000SL has stronger performance and is first launched on the top-end Huawei Nova 12 Ultra.So is Kirin 9000SL a flagship chip?Those who have questions about this can take a look below.

Is Kirin 9000SL a flagship chip?Is Kirin 9000SL a high-end chip?

It’s not a flagship chip, just a mid-range chip

The overall performance of Kirin 9000SL is about 20% lower than the full-blooded version of Kirin 9000S. The overall performance is equivalent to the level of Snapdragon 870, which belongs to the mid-range level.Kirin 9000SL adopts a six-core design, a six-core nine-thread processor, including one 2.35GHz large core, two 2.15GHz medium cores and three 1.53GHz small cores. The GPU uses 750MHz Ma Liang 910.The large core and medium core of Kirin 9000SL are both self-developed Taishan architecture, which is consistent with the Kirin 9000S. Comparing the Kirin 9000S, it is not difficult to find that the large core frequency is reduced to 2.35Ghz, the medium core is changed from three to two, and the small core is changed from four to three, and the frequency is 1.53GHz.

According to the parameter configuration and actual running scores of Kirin 9000SL, Kirin 9000SL is not as good as Kirin 9000S.The Kirin 9000S itself is only a mid-range chip, so the Kirin 9000SL is also a mid-range chip, which is obviously different from the flagship chip.