The Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max has surfaced on Geekbench, giving a third-party look at the new in-house Kirin 9050 Pro. The listing carries the model number CMM-AL10 and was surfaced by GSMArena. One thing to get out of the way first: this is a China-only phone. Huawei launched the Mate 90 series there on October 2, 2026, and as of October 3 no India or global variant has been announced.
Kirin 9050 Pro Geekbench scores
Across the listings, the chip averages 1,317 points single-core and 5,381 points multi-core. The numbers come from Geekbench 7 for Android on aarch64. A single peak run went considerably higher, at 1,528 single-core and 6,169 multi-core.
The screenshot also fills in two details about the test unit. It reports 15.23GB of usable memory, which points to a 16GB configuration. The upload date is October 2, 2026, the same day Huawei launched the Mate 90 line.
GSMArena puts that performance between Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. For context, those are 2021 and 2022 flagship parts. So the Kirin 9050 Pro is not competing with this year’s top Snapdragon or Dimensity silicon. What it does show is how much ground Huawei has recovered since US export controls cut off its access to Western chip designers and foundries.
Kirin 9050 Pro specifications
The chip runs a nine-core CPU split across four clusters, paired with Huawei’s own Maleoon 955 graphics. Here is what the Geekbench listing and GSMArena’s report show:
- CPU core count: 9 cores in total, arranged in four clusters
- Prime core: 1 core at 3.1GHz
- Performance cores: 2 cores at 2.7GHz, plus 4 cores at 2.2GHz
- Efficiency cores: 2 cores at 1.75GHz
- GPU: Maleoon 955, 6 cores at 1.05GHz
- Memory on the test unit: 15.23GB reported, consistent with a 16GB variant
The manufacturing process is still an open question
A Bernstein Research note cited by GSMArena holds that the Kirin 9050 Pro is built on a 7nm-class node. The note points to SMIC’s N+2 or N+3 process as the likely candidate. Treat that as an analyst estimate rather than a disclosure. As of October 3, Huawei has not confirmed which foundry or process node it used.
Huawei is not the only chipmaker having a complicated year. For another angle on where flagship silicon is heading, see our report on how the Exynos 2700 is reportedly in production while Samsung’s S27 Ultra chip stays undecided.
Source: Geekbench listing, via GSMArena
