Hisilicon Kirin 9000 vs Apple A14 Bionic
We’ve put together a comprehensive comparison of the newly released Kirin 9000 and A14 Bionic SoCs, brought to you by Hisilicon and Apple respectively. This analysis breaks down the pros and cons of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs, evaluated through their Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark scores, along with their technical details.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of Kirin 9000
- Kirin 9000 has 0.97% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3130 vs 3100 MHz).
- Kirin 9000 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
- Kirin 9000 has 20.00% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
- Kirin 9000 has 1.53 % better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (762 K vs 751 K).
- Kirin 9000 supports 29.03 % higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic ( 44 vs 34.1 MHz).
Pros of A14 Bionic
- A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000 .
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 194527 | 203493 |
| GPU | 280796 | 284242 |
| Memory | 146761 | 131989 |
| UX | 140303 | 131211 |
| Total score | 762387 | 750935 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 54% | 77% |
| Graphics test | 36 FPS | 50 FPS |
| Score | 6040 | 8375 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Kirin 9000 and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77 3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77 4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55 |
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Base Frequency | 2050MHz | 1800MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3130MHz | 3100MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8.5-A |
| L2 cache | 64 KB | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | 0.512 MB | 8 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15.3 billion | 11.8 billion |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 4 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G78 MP24 | Apple A14 GPU |
| Architecture | Valhall 2 | - |
| GPU frequency | 760 MHz | - |
| Pipelines | 24 | 4 |
| Shading units | 384 | - |
| Total shaders | 768 | - |
| FLOPS | 1076 Gigaflops | 998 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2 | - |
| DirectX version | 12 | - |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | AI accelerator | Neural Engine |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2750 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 44 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 6 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | UFS 3.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2732 x 2048 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP | - |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ |
Connectivity
| Modem | Balong 5000 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7168 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | - |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 2560 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | October 2020 | September 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | - | APL1W01 |
| Official page | Kirin 9000 official site | A14 Bionic official site |