The Honor 9i is equipped with Huawei's own Kirin chip 659 processor. The Kirin 659 is a mid-range chip that uses eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores and speeds up to 2.36GHz, with an integrated Mali-T830 MP2 graphics processor that performs well. In the Ladder ranking, the overall performance of Kirin 659 is equivalent to an upper-level mobile phone processor, although not compared to the flagship processor, but enough to meet most daily use needs, such as daily applications, light games and so on. Therefore, the Kirin 659 chip installed in the Honor 9i can be regarded as a mid-range chip with good performance, which is suitable for general users.
The Honor 9i is equipped with Huawei's self-developed Kirin 659 chip, which uses an octa core design of 4×A53 2.36GHz 4×A53 1.7GHz, and also uses a 16nm process, which can improve the energy efficiency ratio of the chip compared with the previous 28nm process, so as to obtain better performance and longer battery life. In the ladder ranking, the Kirin 659 scored about 35,000 points, which is equivalent to the mid-to-low level of some mainstream flagship models. However, in daily use, the performance of the Honor 9i is smooth enough to meet the needs of most users.
The Hisilicon Kirin659 (Hisilicon Kirin659) processor is equivalent to the Snapdragon 625. This processor uses an 8-core design and is built by TSMC's 16nm process.
Kirin 659 adopts TSMC 16nmFinFET process, equipped with 4 2.36GHzA53 and 4 1.7GHzA51 i5 coprocessor architecture, built-in GPU MaliT830MP2, CPU and GPU are basically the same as Kirin 658, there is no improvement in performance. The biggest changes are the addition of dual-shot and full-screen support.