Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
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 990 (5G)
714339
CPU309916223187
GPU432105212580
Memory243964140763
UX313105137809
NanoReview Score1299090714339
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
3286
Stability82 %55 %
Graphics Test56 fps19 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
964
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
3146
File Compression203.3 MB/s133.5 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s76.3 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec114.7 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s10.9 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s30.1 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s62.2 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec91.2 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec4 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile n/a 58 FPS (Ultra)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile n/a 44 FPS (Ultra)
FortniteFortnite n/a 30 FPS (High)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz n/a 60 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact n/a 59 FPS (Ultra)
Device n/a Huawei Honor 30 Pro Plus (1200x2640)

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
- 2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
- 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2860
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 2 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 15 billion 8 billion
Power (TDP) 6 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Mali-G76 MP16
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Bifrost 3rd gen
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 600 MHz
Execution Units 5 16
Shader Units 128 24
Total shader 640 384
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 460.8 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 Da Vinci
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 34.1 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
- UFS 3.0
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 3360x1440 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
- VC-1
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 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr October, 2019 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 n/a

Results

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

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