Apple A16 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 8020
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2285MHz HiSilicon Kirin 8020 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A16 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.7203 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2285MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
HiSilicon Kirin 8020 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
+48%
1441069
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
968920
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+94%
2627
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
1350
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+91%
6838
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
3570
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
+4%
1789
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
1720
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
1x 2.285 GHz –
3x 2.05 GHz –
4x 1.3 GHz –
3x 2.05 GHz –
4x 1.3 GHz –
3460 MHz
Frequency
2285 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
16 MB
L2 cache
-
4 nm
Process
7 nm
16
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
SMIC
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Maleoon 920
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
840 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
512
6
Max size
16
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7203 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR5X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
-
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.265
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
-
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.3
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
May 2025
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W10
Model number
-
