HiSilicon Kirin 9010 vs Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 12 cores 2300MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9010 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 9010 Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 9010 +242%

979511

Apple A9

285954

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2300 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

12

Cores

2

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Maleoon 910

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

750 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

-

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

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)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2024

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

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