What is the difference between Apple A14 Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G)? Should you buy phone having Apple A14 Bionic or should go for HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G)? Well, you'll get all your questions cleared here.Compare two chipset models on the basis of their benchmark score (AnTuTu and Geekbench), pros and cons, technical specs categorised into gaming, CPU, GPU, Multimedia, and Connectivity.
Apple A14 Bionic has a AnTuTu benchmark score of 614956 and HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) has AnTuTu score of 436390. Apple A14 Bionic comes up with 6 cores, 2990 MHz frequency and on the other hand, HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) has 8 cores and 2860 MHz frequency.
Go through detailed comparison below to see the actual difference and similarity between both chipsets.
Specifications | A14 Bionic | Kirin 990 (4G) |
---|---|---|
Total score | 614956 | 436390 |
Frequency | 2990 MHz | 2860 MHz |
Max size | 6 GB | 12 GB |
Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3360 x 1440 |
AnTuTu Score | ||
CPU | 173864 | 138017 |
GPU | 208037 | 145170 |
Memory | 106696 | 98516 |
UX | 93575 | 55324 |
Total score | 614956 | 436390 |
Connectivity Features | ||
4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 21 |
5G support | Yes | No |
Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
Performance | ||
Processor | 2x 2.99 GHz – Firestorm4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm | 2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
Cores | 6 | 8 |
Frequency | 2990 MHz | 2860 MHz |
Instruction set | ARMv8.4-A | ARMv8-A |
L3 cache | 8 MB | |
Process | 5 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
Transistor count | 11.8 billion | 8 billion |
TDP | 6 W | 6 W |
Geekbench Score | ||
Image compression | 174.85 Mpixels/s | 148.7 Mpixels/s |
Face detection | 33.7 images/s | 23.9 images/s |
Speech recognition | 95.65 words/s | 54.1 words/s |
Machine learning | 95.8 images/s | 55.8 images/s |
Camera shooting | 38.45 images/s | 28.2 images/s |
HTML 5 | 4.59 Mnodes/s | 3.13 Mnodes/s |
SQLite | 1060 Krows/s | 797.5 Krows/s |
Graphics | ||
GPU name | Apple GPU | Mali G76 MP16 |
Execution units | 4 | 16 |
Memory Info | ||
Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
Max bandwidth | 42.7 Gbit/s | 31.78 Gbit/s |
Max size | 6 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia | ||
Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Da Vinci |
Storage type | NVMe | UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 |
Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3360 x 1440 |
Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, VC-1 |
Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Apple A14 Bionic has been announced on September 2020 whereas HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) has been announced on October 2019. Check out detailed comparison with key specs below:
Benchmark measures the performance of the CPU. Geekbench is a benchmark that measures a processor's single core performance and AnTuTu score is the most popular and trustable benchmarking score which evaluates multi core performance. A14 Bionic has an AnTuTu benchmark score of 614956 points with CPU, GPU, Memory, UX score 173864, 208037, 106696, 93575 respectively.
CPU speed shows how many processing cycles per second can be executed by a CPU. A14 Bionic comes up with the architecture of undefined and Kirin 990 (4G) comes up with architecture of Bifrost. Former one has 6 core and 2990 MHz frequency and latter has 8 cores and 2860 MHz frequency. A larger cache time leads to faster performance.
First chipset has max size of 6 GB and HiSilicon Kirin 990 (4G) has max size of 6 GB. It shows the maximum amount of memory supported by a chipset.
In terms of multimedia, A14 Bionic has Neural Engine NPU with storage type as NVMe and Kirin 990 (4G) has Da Vinci NPU and UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 storage type.