HiSilicon Kirin 710A vs Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz HiSilicon Kirin 710A vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 710A Advantages

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.128 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

234102

Apple A9 +22%

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

321

Apple A9 +94%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 710A +18%

1135

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

128

Apple A9 +94%

249

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2000 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

512 KB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G51 MP4

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

1000 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.128 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2340 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 40MP, 2x 24MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2020

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

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