HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs Apple A15 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2620MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S Advantages

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

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2620MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 7W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

903932

Apple A15 Bionic +42%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

1334

Apple A15 Bionic +74%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

4128

Apple A15 Bionic +39%

5741

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

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Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

1x 2.62 GHz – TaiShan V120
3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
4x 1.53 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

2620 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

-

L2 cache

12 MB

7 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

7 W

TDP

6 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Maleoon 910

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

750 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

-

Execution units

5

-

Shading units

128

16

Max size

6

-

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

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)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, 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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Aug 2023

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi36A0

Model number

APL1W07

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