Apple A16 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000 5G

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Which processor is better? We compared Apple A16 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 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth	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	ARMv8.6-A	ARMv8.2-A
Lithography	4 nm	5 nm
Number of transistors	16000 million	15300 million
TDP	8 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	LPDDR5	LPDDR5
Memory frequency	3200 MHz	2750 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification

NVMe

UFS 3.1

Graphics

GPU name	Apple gen. 6	Mali-G78 MP24
GPU Architecture	Apple GPU	Valhall
GPU frequency	1398 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	2796x1290	3840x2160
Max camera resolution	1x 48MP
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	3.5 Gbps	2.5 Gbps
Wi-Fi	6 (802.11ax)	6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	5.3	5.2
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS NavIC