HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs Apple A15 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G 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

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

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

695853

Apple A15 Bionic +85%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

990

Apple A15 Bionic +135%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

3179

Apple A15 Bionic +80%

5741

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

691

Apple A15 Bionic +147%

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2860 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

2 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

7 nm

Process

5 nm

8

Transistor count

15

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

16

Execution units

5

36

Shading units

128

12

Max size

6

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

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

Da Vinci

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Balong 765

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 19

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W07

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

Official page

-

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