Apple A18 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Compared 2 processors: Apple A18, vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A18 and HiSilicon Kirin 9020
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 A18
1605038
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1294877
CPU431354351356
GPU598981288768
Memory208837443211
UX365876211533
NanoReview Score16050381294877
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A18
3466
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A18
8592
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
File Compression286.8 MB/s203.6 MB/s
HTML5 Browser184.2 pages/s144.6 pages/s
PDF Rendering201.2 MP/sec162.6 MP/sec
Background Blur36.2 frames/s16.1 frames/s
Photo Processing90 frames/s51.8 frames/s
Image Detection297.2 frames/s91.2 frames/s
HDR279.1 MP/sec138.7 MP/sec
Ray Tracing8.68 MP/sec6.36 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
- 1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
Process TSMC SMIC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 4050 2500
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L2 cache 8 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 10 MB
Process tech. 3 nm 7 nm
Power (TDP) 9 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A18 GPU Maleoon 920
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Maleoon
GPU Frequency 1490 MHz 840 MHz
Execution Units 5 4
Shader Units 128 256
Total shader 640 1024
FLOPS 1907 GFLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
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 Neural Engine Da Vinci
GPU Frequency 35 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 3750 MHz 4266 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 60 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 4.0
Max. resolution n/a 3840x2160 pixels
Camera 1x48 pixels n/a
Video recording 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 120FPS 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 X75 Balong 6000
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 3500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 7 7
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2024 yr November, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1V08 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A18 the clear winner in this comparison.

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