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53

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Hisilicon Kirin 9000

Kirin 9000

96

Points
Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Apple A18 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.

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CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 9000 39
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 35
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 53
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 194527 475293
GPU 280796 719585
Memory 146761 259838
UX 140303 385136
Total score 762387 1839852
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has 96.05% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (1490 vs 760 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 36.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9000 (3750 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9000 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 141.33% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9000 (1,840 K vs 762 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 36.36% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 9000 (60 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

31%
Kirin 9000
Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
N/A
Apple A18 Pro
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

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

51%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
     2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 24 -
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 2289 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 60 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 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 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, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
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 - 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 2560 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 Mbps
  • 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

Hisilicon Kirin 9000
CPU
39%
GPU
35%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
CPU
99%
GPU
100%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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