Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Kirin 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Kirin 9000 SoCs by Apple and Hisilicon respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-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
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Kirin 9000 41
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Kirin 9000 36
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Kirin 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Kirin 9000 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Kirin 9000
CPU 209204 194527
GPU 351594 280796
Memory 118044 146761
UX 130276 140303
Total score 809118 762387
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 3.19% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (3230 vs 3130 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 57.89% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (1200 vs 760 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 55.13% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (4266 vs 2750 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 6.13% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (809 K vs 762 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 Support 29.03% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (44 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Kirin 9000 1054

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Kirin 9000 3724

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Kirin 9000

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Kirin 9000

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Kirin 9000

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Kirin 9000

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Kirin 9000

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Kirin 9000

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Kirin 9000

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 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
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 64 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 0.512 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 15.3 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G78 MP24
  • Architecture - Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 760 MHz
  • Execution units 5 24
  • Shading units 640 384
  • FLOPS - 1076 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine AI accelerator
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • 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 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Hisilicon Kirin 9000

CPU
41%
GPU
36%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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