Apple A17 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 9010

Compared 2 processors: Apple A17 Pro, vs HiSilicon Kirin 9010. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A17 Pro 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 A17 Pro
1536108
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
956941
CPU390106326675
GPU534149192332
Memory274926244416
UX336927193518
NanoReview Score1536108956941
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A17 Pro
10006
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
n/a
Graphics Test59 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A17 Pro
2953
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
1421
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A17 Pro
7441
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
4323
File Compression260.8 MB/s170.6 MB/s
HTML5 Browser169.6 pages/s126.9 pages/s
PDF Rendering178.5 MP/sec142.9 MP/sec
Background Blur27.9 frames/s12.3 frames/s
Photo Processing79.1 frames/s43.8 frames/s
Image Detection173.5 frames/s81.5 frames/s
HDR232.4 MP/sec120.2 MP/sec
Ray Tracing7.58 MP/sec5.08 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth
- 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 3780 2300
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 8 MB
Process tech. 3 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 19 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 8 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A17 GPU Maleoon 910
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Maleoon
GPU Frequency 1398 MHz 750 MHz
Execution Units 6 4
Shader Units 128 256
Total shader 768 1024
FLOPS 2147.2 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 35 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 4266 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 8 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 1290x2796 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Camera 1x48 pixels n/a
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- 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 Snapdragon X70 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 3500 MB/s Up to 2500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced September, 2023 yr April, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1V02 Hi36A0V121

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A17 Pro the clear winner in this comparison.

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