Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000 5G

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Which processor is better? We compared Apple A15 Bionic with HiSilicon Kirin 9000 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?

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture 2x 3.24 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55
Number of cores 6 8
Instruction Set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
Lithography 5 nm 5 nm
Number of transistors 15000 million 15300 million
TDP 6 Watt 6 Watt
Neural Processing NPU Ascend Lite (2x) + Ascend Tiny (1x), HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture 2.0

Memory (RAM)

Max amount up to 6 GB up to 16 GB
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2750 MHz
Memory-bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification NVMe UFS 3.1

Graphics

GPU name Apple gen. 5 Mali-G78 MP24
GPU Architecture Apple GPU Valhall
GPU frequency 1338 MHz 760 MHz
Execution units 5 24
Shaders 640 384
DirectX 12
OpenCL API 2.1
OpenGL API ES 3.2
Vulkan API 1.2

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution 2732x2048 3840x2160
Max Video Capture 4K@60fps 4K@60fps
Video codec support H.264 (AVC)
H.265 (HEVC)
VP8
VP9
H.264 (AVC)
H.265 (HEVC)
VP8
VP9

Wireless

4G network Yes Yes
5G network Yes Yes
Peak Download Speed 7.5 Gbps 4.6 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed 3 Gbps 2.5 Gbps
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) 6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
Satellite navigation BeiDou
GPS
Galileo
GLONASS
BeiDou
GPS
Galileo
GLONASS
NavIC

Supplemental Information

Launch Date 2021 Quarter 3 2020 October
Partnumber APL1W07
Vertical Segment Mobiles Mobiles
Positioning Flagship Flagship

AnTuTu 10

Total Score
A15 Bionic
1279854
Kirin 9000 5G
762886

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score
A15 Bionic
2316
Kirin 9000 5G
1062

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score
A15 Bionic
5719
Kirin 9000 5G
3724