Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Kirin 9010

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Kirin 9010 SoCs by Apple and respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 12-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 61
Kirin 9010 55
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Kirin 9010 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Kirin 9010 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Kirin 9010 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Kirin 9010
CPU 247110 305156
GPU 408357 197179
Memory 162944 266091
UX 146541 201408
Total score 964952 969834
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 50.43% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (3460 vs 2300 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 86.40% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (1398 vs 750 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 132.73% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9010 (6400 vs 2750 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9010 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9010.

Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 9010

  • Kirin 9010 has 0.51% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (970 K vs 965 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Kirin 9010 1442

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Kirin 9010 4471

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Kirin 9010

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Kirin 9010

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Kirin 9010

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Kirin 9010

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Kirin 9010

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Kirin 9010

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Kirin 9010

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

70%
Base Frequency

1550 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
    4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
    6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 12
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Maleoon 910
  • Architecture Apple GPU Maleoon
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 768 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Da Vinci
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Balong 5000
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU
61%
GPU
62%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

CPU
55%
GPU
38%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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