Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Kirin 9010

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 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
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Kirin 9010 55
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Kirin 9010 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Kirin 9010 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Kirin 9010 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Kirin 9010
CPU 209204 305156
GPU 351594 197179
Memory 118044 266091
UX 130276 201408
Total score 809118 969834
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 40.43% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (3230 vs 2300 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 60.00% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (1200 vs 750 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 55.13% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9010 (4266 vs 2750 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9010 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9010.

Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 9010

  • Kirin 9010 has 19.86% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (970 K vs 809 K ).
  • Kirin 9010 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 9010 1442

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Kirin 9010 4471

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Kirin 9010

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Kirin 9010

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Kirin 9010

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Kirin 9010

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Kirin 9010

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Kirin 9010

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Kirin 9010

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
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

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

70%
Base Frequency

1550 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
    4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
    6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 12
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Maleoon 910
  • Architecture - Maleoon
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
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 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 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

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

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

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