Kirin 9000 Vs A14 Bionic
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs A14 Bionic SoCs by Hisilicon and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000
- Kirin 9000 has 0.97% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3130 vs 3100 MHz).
- Kirin 9000 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
- Kirin 9000 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
- Kirin 9000 has 1.53% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (762 K vs 751 K).
- Kirin 9000 Support 29.03% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (44 vs 34.1 MHz).
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
- A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 194527 | 203493 |
| GPU | 280796 | 284242 |
| Memory | 146761 | 131989 |
| UX | 140303 | 131211 |
| Total score | 762387 | 750935 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | - | 171.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | - | 33.6 images/s |
| Speech recognition | - | 94.8 words/s |
| Machine learning | - | 93.1 images/s |
| Camera shooting | - | 38.7 images/s |
| HTML 5 | - | 4.5 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | - | 1060 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
47%
Kirin 900065%
A14 Bionic ChipScore: 8375
| Stability | 54% | 77% |
| Graphics test | 36 FPS | 50 FPS |
| Score | 6040 | 8375 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 9000 and Apple A14 BionicDisplay
| Max On-Device Display | - | Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | - | 2732 x 2048 |
| Max External Display | - | - |
| HDR | - | - |
| Color Depth | - | - |
| Color Gamut | - | - |
CPU
83%
Kirin 900082%
A14 Bionic Chip
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77 3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77 4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55 |
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Base Frequency | 2050 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3130 MHz | 3100 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8.5-A |
| L1 cache | 64 KB | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | 0.512 MB | 8 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistor count | 15.3 Billion | 11.8 Billion |
| TDP | 4 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G78 MP24 | Apple A14 GPU |
| Architecture | Valhall 2 | - |
| GPU frequency | 760 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 24 | 4 |
| Shading units | 384 | - |
| FLOPS | 1076 Gigaflops | 998 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2 | - |
| DirectX version | 12 | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2750 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 4x16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 44 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 6 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | AI accelerator | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | UFS 3.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2732 x 2048 |
| 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, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | Balong 5000 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 7168 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 2560 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced Date | October 2020 | September 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | - | APL1W01 |
| Official page | Kirin 9000 official site | A14 Bionic official site |
Hisilicon Kirin 9000
48.75
Review By TenzysTech
Apple A14 Bionic
45
Review By TenzysTech
