HiSilicon Kirin 9000E vs Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000E 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 9000E Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1373 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3130MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +88%

1176

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +240%

3255

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +758%

2137

Apple A9

249

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

VS

Apple A9

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

3130 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

14 nm

15.3

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G78 MP22

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

759 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

22

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

2.1373 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

AI accelerator

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, 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 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2020

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

Official page

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