Apple A9 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Apple A9

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G . 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 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +132%

665287

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +55%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +231%

3176

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +177%

691

Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

8

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

650 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

16

32

Shading units

36

4

Max size

12

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

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, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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