HiSilicon Kirin 9000E vs Apple A12 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000E vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1373 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3130MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

1176

Apple A12 Bionic +10%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +14%

3255

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +271%

2137

Apple A12 Bionic

576

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

3130 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

-

L2 cache

8 MB

5 nm

Process

7 nm

15.3

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G78 MP22

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

759 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

22

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

2.1373 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

AI accelerator

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Balong 5000

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2020

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

Official page

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