Apple A9 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9010

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Apple A9 HiSilicon Kirin 9010

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 12 cores 2300MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9010 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9010 Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

HiSilicon Kirin 9010 +242%

979511

Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510

1850 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

2

Cores

12

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

SMIC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Maleoon 910

650 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

6

Execution units

-

32

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

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

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Da Vinci

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

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

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Apr 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

-

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