Apple A17 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)

Compared 2 processors: Apple A17 Pro, vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A17 Pro 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 A17 Pro
1536108
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
714339
CPU390106223187
GPU534149212580
Memory274926140763
UX336927137809
NanoReview Score1536108714339
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A17 Pro
10006
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
3286
Stabilityn/a55 %
Graphics Test59 fps19 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A17 Pro
2953
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
964
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A17 Pro
7441
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
3146
File Compression260.8 MB/s133.5 MB/s
HTML5 Browser169.6 pages/s76.3 pages/s
PDF Rendering178.5 MP/sec114.7 MP/sec
Background Blur27.9 frames/s10.9 frames/s
Photo Processing79.1 frames/s30.1 frames/s
Image Detection173.5 frames/s62.2 frames/s
HDR232.4 MP/sec91.2 MP/sec
Ray Tracing7.58 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 3.78 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth
- 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 3780 2860
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 2 MB
Process tech. 3 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 19 billion 8 billion
Power (TDP) 8 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A17 GPU Mali-G76 MP16
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Bifrost 3rd gen
GPU Frequency 1398 MHz 600 MHz
Execution Units 6 16
Shader Units 128 24
Total shader 768 384
FLOPS 2147.2 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 35 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max RAM 8 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 1290x2796 pixels 3360x1440 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
- VC-1
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- 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 n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou

Other

Announced September, 2023 yr October, 2019 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1V02 n/a

Results

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

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