Apple A14 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 820

Compared 2 processors: Apple A14 Bionic, vs HiSilicon Kirin 820. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A14 Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 820
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A14 Bionic
1095315
HiSilicon Kirin 820
494513
CPU310050146219
GPU323143144816
Memory173777101046
UX288345102432
NanoReview Score1095315494513
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A14 Bionic
7655
HiSilicon Kirin 820
n/a
Stability69 %n/a
Graphics Test45 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A14 Bionic
2079
HiSilicon Kirin 820
788
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A14 Bionic
4779
HiSilicon Kirin 820
1972
File Compression167 MB/s99.6 MB/s
HTML5 Browser105.5 pages/s46.6 pages/s
PDF Rendering116.4 MP/sec65.3 MP/sec
Background Blur17.6 frames/s6.16 frames/s
Photo Processing51.5 frames/s17.7 frames/s
Image Detection95.7 frames/s36.4 frames/s
HDR147.6 MP/sec60.3 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.18 MP/sec2.86 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile n/a 58 FPS (Low)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile n/a 41 FPS (Ultra)
FortniteFortnite n/a 27 FPS (Low)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz n/a 48 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact n/a 57 FPS (Ultra)
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang n/a 33 FPS (Medium)
Device n/a Huawei Honor X10 (1080x2400)

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
- 1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
- 3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
- 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55
Process TSMC n/a
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3100 2360
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB n/a
L2 cache 8 MB n/a
Process tech. 5 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 11.8 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W 5 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A14 GPU Mali-G57 MP6
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Valhall 1st gen
GPU Frequency 1278 MHz 850 MHz
Execution Units 4 6
Shader Units 64 32
Total shader 256 192
FLOPS 654.3 GFLOPS 326.4 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
OpenCL n/a 2.0

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine Yes
GPU Frequency 11 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 31.78 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 12 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 2.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 3360x1440 pixels
Camera n/a 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem n/a Balong 5000
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 4600 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.1
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou

Other

Announced September, 2020 yr March, 2020 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1W01 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A14 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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