HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Apple A19 Pro

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 9020, vs Apple A19 Pro. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 9020 and Apple A19 Pro
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 A19 Pro
2112459
CPU351356510033
GPU288768791934
Memory443211367847
UX211533442645
NanoReview Score12948772112459
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
1603
Apple A19 Pro
3671
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 9020
5129
Apple A19 Pro
10834
File Compression203.6 MB/sn/a
HTML5 Browser144.6 pages/sn/a
PDF Rendering162.6 MP/secn/a
Background Blur16.1 frames/sn/a
Photo Processing51.8 frames/sn/a
Image Detection91.2 frames/sn/a
HDR138.7 MP/secn/a
Ray Tracing6.36 MP/secn/a

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V121
- 3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V120
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
- 2x 4.38 GHz -
- 4x 2.51 GHz -
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 2500 4380
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 1 MB n/a
L3 Cache 10 MB n/a
Process tech. 7 nm 3 nm

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 920 n/a
Architecture Maleoon n/a
GPU Frequency 840 MHz n/a
Execution Units 4 n/a
Shader Units 256 n/a
Total shader 1024 n/a
FLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS n/a
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 Neural Engine

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 16 GB 12 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 n/a
Camera n/a 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- 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
Wi-Fi version 7 7
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced November, 2024 yr September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider HiSilicon Kirin 9020 the clear winner in this comparison.

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