HiSilicon Kirin 9000 vs Apple A18 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000 vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3316 TFLOPS vs 2.2272 TFLOPS )

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3130MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

907784

Apple A18 Pro +90%

1733863

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +4%

2331

Apple A18 Pro

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

3130 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

16 MB

5 nm

Process

3 nm

15.3

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G78 MP24

GPU name

Apple A18 Pro GPU

759 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

24

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

2.3316 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

AI accelerator

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Balong 5000

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2020

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

Official page

-

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