Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3316 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3130MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +41%

907784

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +2%

1301

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

1266

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +24%

3529

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +304%

2331

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

3130 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

15.3

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP24

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

759 MHz

4

Execution units

24

64

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.3316 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

AI accelerator

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

AI accelerator

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Oct 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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