Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs A16 Bionic chip

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs A16 Bionic chip 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
A16 Bionic chip 61
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
A16 Bionic chip 63
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
A16 Bionic chip 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
A16 Bionic chip 70
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 A16 Bionic chip
CPU 194527 247110
GPU 280796 408357
Memory 146761 162944
UX 140303 146541
Total score 762387 964952
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 10.54% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (3460 vs 3130 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 83.95% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (1398 vs 760 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 132.73% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (6400 vs 2750 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 26.57% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (965 K vs 762 K ).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 16.36% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 9000 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
A16 Bionic chip 1870

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
A16 Bionic chip 5474

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
A16 Bionic chip 243.5

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
A16 Bionic chip 46.4

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
A16 Bionic chip 141.8

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
A16 Bionic chip 117.1

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
A16 Bionic chip 54.3

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
A16 Bionic chip 5.9

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
A16 Bionic chip 1430

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion 16 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Apple A16 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 24 6
  • Shading units 384 768
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x16 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 2796 x 1290
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9, 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. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 9000

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

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU
61%
GPU
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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