HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs Apple A18 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2620MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs. 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2620MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

903932

Apple A18 Pro +114%

1938352

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

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Apple A18 Pro

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2620 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

7 nm

Process

3 nm

7 W

TDP

-

SMIC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Maleoon 910

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

750 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

-

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

-

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2023

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi36A0

Model number

-

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