HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2490MHz)

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +24%

1616

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +86%

5314

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan
3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan
4x 1.6 GHz – TaiShan

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

2500 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

5 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

10 MB

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

-

TDP

6 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Maleoon 920

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

840 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

4

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

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)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Balong 5000

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

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