Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000E
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000E . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3130MHz)
Released 11 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 9000E 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1373 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+98%
2333
HiSilicon Kirin 9000E
1176
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+76%
5741
HiSilicon Kirin 9000E
3255
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
1712
HiSilicon Kirin 9000E
+24%
2137
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55
3230 MHz
Frequency
3130 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
12 MB
L2 cache
-
5 nm
Process
5 nm
15
Transistor count
15.3
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G78 MP22
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
759 MHz
5
Execution units
22
128
Shading units
64
6
Max size
16
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
2.1373 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2750 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
44 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
AI accelerator
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Balong 5000
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 4600 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Oct 2020
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
-
