Apple A18 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000

VS

Apple A18

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 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

Apple A18 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3130MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3316 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 +69%

1539646

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

907784

FP32 (float)

Apple A18

1789

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +30%

2331

Apple A18

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

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

4040 MHz

Frequency

3130 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15.3

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP24

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

759 MHz

5

Execution units

24

128

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.3316 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

AI accelerator

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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