Apple A13 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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Which processor is better? We compared Apple A13 Bionic with HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G. Compare, analyze the specifications. Find out their scores in popular benchmarks (AnTuTu 10, GeekBench 6 Single-Core, GeekBench 6 Multi-Core) and who is the winner?

AnTuTu 10

Total Score

A13 Bionic

885295

Kirin 990 5G

576876

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score

A13 Bionic

1735

Kirin 990 5G

774

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score

A13 Bionic

4109

Kirin 990 5G

3082

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning 4x 1.72 GHz – Thunder	2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Number of cores	6	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8.4-A	ARMv8.2-A
Lithography	7 nm	7 nm
Number of transistors	8500 million	8000 million
TDP	6 Watt	7 Watt
Neural Processing	NPU	Ascend Lite + Ascend Tiny, HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture, HiAI 2.0

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 4 GB	up to 12 GB
Memory type	LPDDR4X	LPDDR4X
Memory frequency	2133 MHz	2133 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification

NVMe

UFS 3.0

Graphics

GPU name	Apple gen. 3	Mali-G76 MP16
GPU Architecture	Apple GPU	Bifrost
GPU frequency	1350 MHz	700 MHz
Execution units	4	16
Shaders	256	256
DirectX		12
OpenCL API		2.0
Vulkan API		1.1

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution	2688x1242	3360x1440@60Hz
Max Video Capture	4K@60fps	4K@60fps
Video codec support	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC)	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VC-1 VP8 VP9

Wireless

4G network	Yes	Yes
5G network	Yes	Yes
Peak Download Speed	1.2 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed	0.35 Gbps
Wi-Fi	6 (802.11ax)	6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	5.0	5.0
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS