Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2620MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000S . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 7W)

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2620MHz vs 2490MHz)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S +40%

903932

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S +2%

1334

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S +45%

4128

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.62 GHz – TaiShan V120
3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
4x 1.53 GHz – Cortex-A510

2490 MHz

Frequency

2620 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

SMIC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Maleoon 910

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

4

Execution units

-

64

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

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

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

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, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Aug 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

Hi36A0

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