Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +93%

1290037

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

665287

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +140%

2333

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +80%

5741

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

3176

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +147%

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

691

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

3230 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

5 nm

Process

7 nm

15

Transistor count

8

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

5

Execution units

16

128

Shading units

36

6

Max size

12

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Da Vinci

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

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

Audio codecs

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 1250 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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