Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9010

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs HiSilicon Kirin 9010. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 9010
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 9010
956941
CPU309916326675
GPU432105192332
Memory243964244416
UX313105193518
NanoReview Score1299090956941
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
n/a
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
1421
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
4323
File Compression203.3 MB/s170.6 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s126.9 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec142.9 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s12.3 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s43.8 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s81.5 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec120.2 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec5.08 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 4x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510
Process TSMC SMIC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2300
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 8 MB
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 Maleoon 910
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Maleoon
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 750 MHz
Execution Units 5 4
Shader Units 128 256
Total shader 640 1024
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 1536 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.0
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine Da Vinci
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 4266 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 3.1
- UFS 4.0
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K 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 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 Up to 2500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr April, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 Hi36A0V121

Results

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

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