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Hisilicon Kirin 9000

Kirin 9000

78

Points
Apple A14 Bionic

A14 Bionic
Overview - 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.

Features

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
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 A14 Bionic
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.
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

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

31%
Kirin 9000
Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
43%
A14 Bionic
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

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 - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • 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
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

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 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 9000

Hisilicon Kirin 9000
CPU
41%
GPU
36%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A14 Bionic

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