HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Apple A16 Bionic

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9020, vs Apple A16 Bionic. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9020 and Apple A16 Bionic
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 9020
1294877
Apple A16 Bionic
1441348
CPU351356381160
GPU288768472052
Memory443211258668
UX211533329468
NanoReview Score12948771441348
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
n/a
Apple A16 Bionic
9874
Stabilityn/a79 %
Graphics Testn/a59 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Apple A16 Bionic
2627
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
Apple A16 Bionic
6838
File Compression203.6 MB/s236.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser144.6 pages/s156.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering162.6 MP/sec162.1 MP/sec
Background Blur16.1 frames/s26.5 frames/s
Photo Processing51.8 frames/s77.6 frames/s
Image Detection91.2 frames/s155.8 frames/s
HDR138.7 MP/sec207.5 MP/sec
Ray Tracing6.36 MP/sec6.85 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
- 2/3.46 (Everest)
- 4/2.02 (Sawtooth)
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 2500 3460
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache n/a 256 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 16 MB
L3 Cache 10 MB n/a
Process tech. 7 nm 4 nm
Transistor count n/a 16 billion
Power (TDP) n/a 8 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 920 Apple A16 GPU
Architecture Maleoon Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 840 MHz 1398 MHz
Execution Units 4 5
Shader Units 256 128
Total shader 1024 640
FLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS 1789.4 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 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 17 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 6 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 NVMe
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2796x1290 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
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Balong 6000 n/a
4G Support n/a LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed n/a Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed n/a Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 6
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS

Other

Announced November, 2024 yr September, 2022 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename n/a APL1W10

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A16 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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