Apple A16 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 12 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9020 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A16 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.7203 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2500MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
+15%
1441069
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1248520
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+63%
2627
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+33%
6838
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
+4%
1789
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1720
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
2x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
6x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
6x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
3460 MHz
Frequency
2500 MHz
6
Cores
12
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
16 MB
L2 cache
5 MB
-
L3 cache
10 MB
4 nm
Process
7 nm
16
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
SMIC
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Maleoon 920
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
840 MHz
5
Execution units
4
128
Shading units
512
6
Max size
16
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7203 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR5X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
Da Vinci
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
-
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
- H.265
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
-
Modem
Balong 6000
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 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.3
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
Nov 2024
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W10
Model number
-
