Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 8000

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs HiSilicon Kirin 8000. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 8000
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 A15 Bionic
1299090
HiSilicon Kirin 8000
574704
CPU309916178879
GPU432105118109
Memory243964128205
UX313105149511
NanoReview Score1299090574704
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
HiSilicon Kirin 8000
n/a
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
HiSilicon Kirin 8000
999
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
HiSilicon Kirin 8000
2948
File Compression203.3 MB/s137.2 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s70.9 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec108.9 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s10.3 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s26.3 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s55.8 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec91.7 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec4.05 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 2.4 GHz – 1xA77 H
- 3x 2.19 GHz – 1xA77 L
- 4x 1.84 GHz – A55
Process TSMC SMIC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2400
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB n/a
Process tech. 5 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 15 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Mali-G610 MP4
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Valhall 3rd gen
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 864 MHz
Execution Units 5 4
Shader Units 128 64
Total shader 640 256
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 442.3 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 15.8 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 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 2.2
- UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels n/a
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem n/a Balong
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr October, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1W07 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A15 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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