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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 9000 vs A14 Bionic – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 9000 Vs A14 Bionic

Kirin 9000
VS
A14 Bionic
Kirin 9000
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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 9000
41
A14 Bionic
50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000
36
A14 Bionic
48
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000
86
A14 Bionic
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000
54
A14 Bionic
60

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 benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 9000
vs
A14 Bionic

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000
762387
A14 Bionic
750935
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
Kirin 9000
1054
A14 Bionic +53%
1611
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 9000
3724
A14 Bionic +13%
4209
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 9000
65%
A14 Bionic Chip
Score: 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 Bionic

Display

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 9000
82%
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)
Kirin 9000
N/A
A14 Bionic
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
7168
A14 Bionic
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
A14 Bionic
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
2560
A14 Bionic
2500
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
Hisilicon Kirin 9000
CPU
41%
GPU
36%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

48.75


Review By TenzysTech
Apple A14 Bionic
Apple A14 Bionic
CPU
50%
GPU
48%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

45


Review By TenzysTech

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