49

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 9000

85

Points
Apple A18
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Apple A18 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 34
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 28
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 49
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Apple A18
CPU 194527 421143
GPU 280796 615010
Memory 146761 178670
UX 140303 345874
Total score 762387 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 29.07% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (4040 vs 3130 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 83.95% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (1398 vs 760 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 36.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (3750 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9000 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 104.71% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (1,561 K vs 762 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
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

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

51%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 24 -
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • 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
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7168 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2560 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 9000

CPU
34%
GPU
28%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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