HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs Apple A9

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HiSilicon Kirin 820 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 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 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (31.78GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +74%

498005

Apple A9

285954

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +161%

652

Apple A9

249

HiSilicon Kirin 820

VS

Apple A9

CPU

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2360 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP6

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

850 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

32

12

Max size

4

0.6528 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

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

31.78 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

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