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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 9000 vs A17 Pro – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 9000 Vs A17 Pro

Kirin 9000
VS
A17 Pro
Kirin 9000
A17 Pro
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs A17 Pro 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
A17 Pro
94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000
36
A17 Pro
97
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000
86
A17 Pro
89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000
54
A17 Pro
93

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A17 Pro
  • A17 Pro has 20.77% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (3780 vs 3130 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 83.95% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (1398 vs 760 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9000 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 114.02% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (1,632 K vs 762 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
  • A17 Pro Support 16.36% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 9000 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 9000
vs
A17 Pro

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000
762387
A17 Pro +114%
1631657
CPU 194527 399992
GPU 280796 620081
Memory 146761 265579
UX 140303 346005
Total score 762387 1631657
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
A17 Pro +185%
2999
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 9000
3724
A17 Pro +109%
7779
Image compression - -
Face detection - -
Speech recognition - -
Machine learning - -
Camera shooting - -
HTML 5 - -
SQLite - -

3DMark

47%
Kirin 9000
77%
A17 Pro
Score: 10002

Stability 54% 79%
Graphics test 36 FPS 60 FPS
Score 6040 10002

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 9000 and Apple A17 Pro

Display

Max On-Device Display - -
Max On-Display Resolution - -
Max External Display - -
HDR - -
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

83%
Kirin 9000
100%
A17 Pro
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
2x 3.78 GHz
4x 2.02 GHz
Cores 8 6
Base Frequency 2050 MHz 2020 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3130 MHz 3780 MHz
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 3 nm
Transistor count 15.3 Billion 19 Billion
TDP 4 W 8 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Apple A17 GPU
Architecture Valhall 2 Apple GPU
GPU frequency 760 MHz 1398 MHz
Execution units 24 6
Shading units 384 128
FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 -
OpenCL version 2 -
DirectX version 12 -

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory frequency 2750 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Neural Engine
Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
A17 Pro
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
7168
A17 Pro
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
A17 Pro
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
2560
A17 Pro
3500
Modem Balong 5000 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 7168 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 2560 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced Date October 2020 September 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - APL1V02
Official page Kirin 9000 official site A17 Pro 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 A17 Pro
Apple A17 Pro
CPU
94%
GPU
97%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%

70


Review By TenzysTech

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