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Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

Compare available catalogue specifications. The page highlights factual differences without declaring an overall winner.

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Compared fields 41
Different values 33
Quick factual highlights
Apple A12 Bionic
  • Higher listed GPU clock
HiSilicon Kirin 9000E
  • More CPU cores
  • Higher maximum CPU clock
  • Smaller manufacturing process
  • Higher listed download speed
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Detailed comparison

CPU

SpecificationApple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 9000E
Architecture 2x 2.49 GHz - Vortex4x 1.6 GHz - Tempest 1x 3.13 GHz - Cortex-A773x 2.54 GHz - Cortex-A774x 2.05 GHz - Cortex-A55
CPU cores 6 8
Clock speed 2490 MHz 3130 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.2-A
Process technology 7 nanometers 5 nanometers
Transistors 6.9 billion 15.3 billion
TDP 6 W 6 W

Cache and memory

SpecificationApple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 9000E
L1 cache 128 KB Not available
L2 cache 8 MB Not available
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2750 MHz
Memory bus 1x 64 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Maximum bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
Maximum memory 12 GB 16 GB

Graphics and AI

SpecificationApple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 9000E
GPU Apple A12 Bionic GPU Mali-G78 MP22
GPU architecture Not available Valhall 2
GPU clock 1125 MHz 760 MHz
Execution units 32 22
Shaders 256 352
FLOPS 560 Gigaflops 2137 Gigaflops
Vulkan 1.1 1.1
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
DirectX 12 12
Neural processor / NPU Yes AI accelerator

Display and media

SpecificationApple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 9000E
Maximum display resolution 2688 x 1242 3840 x 2160
Maximum camera resolution 2x 12MP Not available
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

SpecificationApple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 9000E
4G LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G No Yes
Download speed Up to 1000 Mbps Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6
Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

General

SpecificationApple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 9000E
Release September 2018 October 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W81 Not available
Storage support NVMe UFS 3.1
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