Huawei’s Kirin 9006C Single-Core, Multi-Core Scores Reveal A Disappointingly Slow SoC For The Company’s Notebooks
The Kirin 9006C was recently announced by Huawei for its Qingyun L540 and Qingyun L420 family of notebooks. Unfortunately, just like the Kirin 9000S and Kirin 9000SL, the single-core and multi-core performance is yet to match what the competition offers, but that is how difficult things become when you have global trade sanctions limiting your options.
Several machines sporting the Kirin 9006C have been tested, with the single-core and multi-core results posted on Geekbench 6. One Qingyun L420 unit posted a score of 1,229 and 3,577, which is highly disappointing, particularly when the SoC is designed to run in laptops requiring more computing capabilities than smartphones. However, unlike the majority of brands that run Windows 10 and Windows 11, Huawei’s Qingyun L540 and Qingyun L420 run what is called ‘UnionTech OS Desktop 20 Pro.’
The operating system may be lightweight compared to Windows 10 or Windows 11, so a high-end chipset is not mandatory. However, if Huawei gets the opportunity to go back to Microsoft’s platform, it will need to develop something with a bit more punch. Upon comparing the Kirin 9006C, we found that its single-core and multi-core scores are slower than the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, a Qualcomm silicon that significantly lags behind Apple’s M2 in the same test.
It was found just yesterday that the Kirin 9006C is a 5nm SoC developed by TSMC, not SMIC. The Taiwanese foundry mass produced wafers on this lithography back in 2020, and while Huawei is behind in the semiconductor race, a 5nm chipset still has decent power-efficiency properties. In short, its Qingyun L540 and Qingyun L420 should last longer than the typical notebook in this category, but it does not change the fact that the Kirin 9006C is
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