What is the difference between HiSilicon Kirin 9000 and Apple A11 Bionic? Should you buy phone having HiSilicon Kirin 9000 or should go for Apple A11 Bionic? 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.
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 has a AnTuTu benchmark score of 694127 and Apple A11 Bionic has AnTuTu score of 317306. HiSilicon Kirin 9000 comes up with 8 cores, 3130 MHz frequency and on the other hand, Apple A11 Bionic has 6 cores and 2390 MHz frequency.
Go through detailed comparison below to see the actual difference and similarity between both chipsets.
Specifications | Kirin 9000 | A11 Bionic |
---|---|---|
Total score | 694127 | 317306 |
Frequency | 3130 MHz | 2390 MHz |
Max size | 16 GB | 3 GB |
Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2436 x 1125 |
AnTuTu Score | ||
CPU | 189738 | 88563 |
GPU | 291337 | 75396 |
Memory | 115924 | 44020 |
UX | 89892 | 40315 |
Total score | 694127 | 317306 |
Connectivity Features | ||
Modem | Balong 5000 | |
4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 12 |
5G support | Yes | No |
Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.0 |
Performance | ||
Processor | 1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A773x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A774x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55 | 2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 0 GHz – Mistral |
Cores | 8 | 6 |
Frequency | 3130 MHz | 2390 MHz |
Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8-A |
Process | 5 nanometers | 10 nanometers |
Transistor count | 15.3 billion | 4.3 billion |
TDP | 6 W | 8 W |
Graphics | ||
GPU name | Mali-G78 MP24 | Apple GPU |
Architecture | Valhall 2 | |
Execution units | 24 | 3 |
Shading units | 384 | |
Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.1 |
DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory Info | ||
Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4 |
Memory frequency | 2750 MHz | 1866 MHz |
Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
Max bandwidth | 44 Gbit/s | 14.9 Gbit/s |
Max size | 16 GB | 3 GB |
Multimedia | ||
Neural processor (NPU) | AI accelerator | Neural Engine |
Storage type | UFS 3.1 | NVMe |
Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2436 x 1125 |
Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Game Performance | ||
PUBG Mobile | 81 FPS [Ultra] | |
Call of Duty: Mobile | 44 FPS [Ultra] | |
Fortnite | 29 FPS [Low] | |
World of Tanks Blitz | 51 FPS [Ultra] | |
Genshin Impact | 58 FPS [Ultra] | |
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 60 FPS [Ultra] | |
Device | Huawei Mate 40 Pro 1344 x 3140 |
HiSilicon Kirin 9000 has been announced on October 2020 whereas Apple A11 Bionic has been announced on September 2017. 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. Kirin 9000 has an AnTuTu benchmark score of 694127 points with CPU, GPU, Memory, UX score 189738, 291337, 115924, 89892 respectively.
CPU speed shows how many processing cycles per second can be executed by a CPU. Kirin 9000 comes up with the architecture of Valhall 2 and A11 Bionic comes up with architecture of undefined. Former one has 8 core and 3130 MHz frequency and latter has 6 cores and 2390 MHz frequency. A larger cache time leads to faster performance.
First chipset has max size of 16 GB and Apple A11 Bionic has max size of 16 GB. It shows the maximum amount of memory supported by a chipset.
In terms of multimedia, Kirin 9000 has AI accelerator NPU with storage type as UFS 3.1 and A11 Bionic has Neural Engine NPU and NVMe storage type.