Apple A9 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000

VS

Apple A9

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 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 A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3316 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3130MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +217%

907784

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +103%

1266

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +268%

3529

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +836%

2331

Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

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

1850 MHz

Frequency

3130 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

15.3

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP24

650 MHz

GPU frequency

759 MHz

6

Execution units

24

32

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.3316 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

AI accelerator

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Oct 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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