HiSilicon Kirin 9000 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3316 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

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

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3130MHz)

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

907784

Apple A15 Bionic +42%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

1266

Apple A15 Bionic +84%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

3529

Apple A15 Bionic +62%

5741

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 9000 +36%

2331

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

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Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

3130 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

12 MB

5 nm

Process

5 nm

15.3

Transistor count

15

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G78 MP24

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

759 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

24

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

128

16

Max size

6

2.3316 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

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

AI accelerator

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

AI accelerator

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2020

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W07

HiSilicon Kirin 9000

Official page

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