51

Points
HiSilicon Kirin 9010

85

Points
Apple A18
Overview - Kirin 9010 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9010 vs Apple A18 SoCs by and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 12-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 9010 46
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9010 31
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9010 75
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9010 51
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9010 Apple A18
CPU 305156 421143
GPU 197179 615010
Memory 266091 178670
UX 201408 345874
Total score 969834 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 75.65% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (4040 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 86.40% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (1398 vs 750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 36.36% higher memory frequency than Kirin 9010 (3750 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 9010 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 60.92% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 9010 (1,561 K vs 970 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9010.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9010 1442
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9010 4471
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
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

57%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

38%
Base Frequency

1550 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
    4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
    6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 12 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Maleoon 910 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Maleoon Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
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 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Da Vinci Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 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 4600 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

CPU
46%
GPU
31%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A18

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