HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Apple A13 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 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)

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2500MHz)

Score

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

2500 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

5 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

10 MB

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

8.5

-

TDP

6 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Maleoon 920

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

840 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

4

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.1

-

DirectX version

12.1

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

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

5 TOPS

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

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
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

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