Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan V1216x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan V1204x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
Frequency
2490 MHz
2500 MHz
Cores
6
12
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
128 KB
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L2 cache
0
5 MB
Process
7 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
6.9
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TDP
6 W
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Manufacturing
TSMC
SMIC
L3 cache
-
10 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Maleoon 920
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
840 MHz
Execution units
4
4
Shading units
64
512
Vulkan version
1.1
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
68.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Da Vinci
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
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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
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 4600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2018
Nov 2024
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W81
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AI
NPU
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Da Vinci
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
1,248,520
Geekbench 6
1,301
1,603
Geekbench 6
2,843
5,129
FP32 (float)
576
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