HiSilicon Kirin 8020 vs Apple A17 Pro Which One is Better

CPU

Architecture

1x 2.285 GHz –3x 2.05 GHz –4x 1.3 GHz –

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

Frequency

2285 MHz

3780 MHz

Cores

8

6

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

ARMv8.6-A

Process

7 nm

3 nm

Manufacturing

SMIC

TSMC

L1 cache

-

256 KB

L2 cache

-

16 MB

Transistor count

-

19

TDP

-

8 W

Graphics

GPU name

Maleoon 920

Apple A17 GPU

GPU frequency

840 MHz

1398 MHz

Shading units

512

128

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

-

Execution units

-

6

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR5

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

3200 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

68.2 Gbit/s

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

NPU

Da Vinci

Apple Neural Engine

Theoretical Performance

-

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 4.0

NVMe

Video capture

4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Neural processor (NPU)

-

Neural Engine

Max display resolution

-

2796 x 1290

Max camera resolution

-

1x 48MP

Connectivity

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

7

6

Bluetooth

5.4

5.3

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

4G support

-

LTE Cat. 24

Download speed

-

Up to 7500 Mbps

Upload speed

-

Up to 3500 Mbps

Info

Announced

May 2025

Sep 2023

Class

Mid range

Flagship

Model number

-

APL1V02

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

968,920

1,544,984

FP32 (float)

1,720

2,147

Geekbench 6

-

2,953

Geekbench 6

-

7,441