55

Points
HiSilicon Kirin 9010

96

Points
Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Kirin 9010 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9010 vs Apple A18 Pro SoCs by and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 12-core and 6-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
Kirin 9010 53
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9010 37
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9010 75
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9010 55
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9010 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 305156 475293
GPU 197179 719585
Memory 266091 259838
UX 201408 385136
Total score 969834 1839852
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has 98.67% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (1490 vs 750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 36.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9010 (3750 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9010 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 89.71% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9010 (1,840 K vs 970 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9010.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 36.36% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 9010 (60 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9010 1442
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9010 4471
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
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

57%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

38%
Base Frequency

1550 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
    4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
    6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 12 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Maleoon 910 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Maleoon Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Da Vinci Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 4600 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

CPU
53%
GPU
37%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A18 Pro

CPU
99%
GPU
100%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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