Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 820

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs HiSilicon Kirin 820. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic
1299090
HiSilicon Kirin 820
494513
CPU309916146219
GPU432105144816
Memory243964101046
UX313105102432
NanoReview Score1299090494513
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
HiSilicon Kirin 820
n/a
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
HiSilicon Kirin 820
788
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
HiSilicon Kirin 820
1972
File Compression203.3 MB/s99.6 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s46.6 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec65.3 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s6.16 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s17.7 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s36.4 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec60.3 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 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 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 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 3230 2360
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 5 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Mali-G57 MP6
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Valhall 1st gen
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 850 MHz
Execution Units 5 6
Shader Units 128 32
Total shader 640 192
FLOPS 1712.6 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 15.8 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
- VP8
- VP9
- 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. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 4600 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.1
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr March, 2020 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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