HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs Apple M2 iPad

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We compared the phone version of 8 cores 2620MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000S vs. the tablet version 8 cores 3490MHz Apple M2 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S Advantages

Lower TDP (7W vs 15W)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Apple M2 iPad Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3490MHz vs 2620MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

903932

Apple M2 iPad +142%

2188966

HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

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Apple M2 iPad

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard

2620 MHz

Frequency

3490 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

16 MB

7 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

20

7 W

TDP

15 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Maleoon 910

GPU name

Apple M2 GPU

750 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

-

Execution units

8

-

Shading units

128

16

Max size

24

-

FLOPS

2.918 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

6400 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

102.4 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

-

Theoretical Performance

15.8 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

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, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Aug 2023

Announced

Jun 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi36A0

Model number

APL1109

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