HiSilicon Kirin 9010 vs Apple M3 (iPad)

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9010, vs Apple M3 (iPad). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9010 and Apple M3 (iPad)
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
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
956941
Apple M3 (iPad)
1814284
CPU326675426842
GPU192332696454
Memory244416304514
UX193518386474
NanoReview Score9569411814284
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
1421
Apple M3 (iPad)
3037
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
4323
Apple M3 (iPad)
11776
File Compression170.6 MB/s459.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser126.9 pages/s266.5 pages/s
PDF Rendering142.9 MP/sec312.1 MP/sec
Background Blur12.3 frames/s48.1 frames/s
Photo Processing43.8 frames/s125.3 frames/s
Image Detection81.5 frames/s283.3 frames/s
HDR120.2 MP/sec419.3 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.08 MP/sec13.4 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 4x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 4x 4.05 GHz –
- 4x 2.75 GHz –
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2300 4050
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache n/a 256 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 16 MB
L3 Cache 8 MB n/a
Process tech. 7 nm 3 nm
Transistor count n/a 25 billion
Power (TDP) n/a 20 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 910 n/a
Architecture Maleoon n/a
GPU Frequency 750 MHz n/a
Execution Units 4 n/a
Shader Units 256 n/a
Total shader 1024 n/a
FLOPS 1536 GFLOPS n/a
Vulkan 1.0 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Da Vinci Apple Neural Engine
GPU Frequency n/a 18 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s 102.4 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 24 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type - UFS 3.1
- UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2732x2048 pixels
Camera n/a 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 5000 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 4600 MB/s Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.2 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS

Other

Announced April, 2024 yr October, 2023 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename Hi36A0V121 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple M3 (iPad) the clear winner in this comparison.

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