Kirin 9025 vs Apple A19
We compared the 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 9025 (Maleoon 920) with the older 6-core Apple A19 (Apple A19 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 9025
- Has 2 more cores
Pros of Apple A19
- Has a smaller size transistor (3 versus 7 nm)
- 64% higher CPU clock speed (4260 vs 2600 MHz)
- Shows significantly better (up to 63%) AnTuTu 11 score β 2156K vs 1325K
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 11
| CPU | 370183 | 598735 |
| GPU | 295489 | 803562 |
| Memory | 434593 | 200566 |
| UX | 225467 | 553263 |
| Total score | 1325732 | 2156126 |
| Samples | Less than 3 | [23 tests] |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Asset compression | - | 313.7 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | - | 220.3 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | - | 210.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | - | 305.8 images/sec |
| HDR | - | 311.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | - | 39.9 images/sec |
| Photo processing | - | 102.1 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | - | 9.89 Mpixels/sec |
| Samples | - | 9 tests |
Compute Score (GPU)
| Background blur | - | 79.6 images/sec |
| Face detection | - | 90.4 images/sec |
| Horizon detection | - | 1.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge detection | - | 1.34 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian blur | - | 3.16 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature matching | - | 0.49 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo matching | - | 90.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle physics | - | 3104.2 FPS |
| API | - | Metal |
| Samples | - | 10 tests |
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!
3DMark
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Score | - | 2147 |
| Stability | - | 72% |
| Graphics test | - | 16 FPS |
3DMark Solar Bay
| Score | - | 9465 |
| Graphics test | - | 36 FPS |
| Section 1 | - | 40 FPS |
| Section 2 | - | 36 FPS |
| Section 3 | - | 31 FPS |
Recent User Tests
HiSilicon Kirin 9025
No benchmark results yet
Apple A19
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| π 2026-09-20 (Shovandeep) | AnTuTu 11 | 1837059 |
| π 2026-09-14 (kpvas) | AnTuTu 11 | 2134388 |
| π 2026-08-27 (Zharkyn) | AnTuTu 11 | 2243285 |
| π 2026-08-07 (Aarav) | AnTuTu 11 | 1776737 |
| π 2026-08-06 (yuki) | AnTuTu 11 | 2352837 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Kirin 9025 and Apple A19CPU
| Architecture | 1x 2.6 GHz β TaiShan V121 3x 2.15 GHz β TaiShan V120 4x 1.6 GHz β Taishan-Little |
2x 4.26 GHz β 4x 2.6 GHz β |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2600 MHz | 4260 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv9.2-A |
| L1 cache | - | 192 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| L3 cache | 10 MB | - |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 3 nanometers |
| Manufacturing | SMIC | TSMC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Maleoon 920 | Apple A19 GPU |
| Architecture | Maleoon | Apple A GPU |
| GPU frequency | - | 1620 MHz |
| Pipelines | 4 | 5 |
| Shading units | 256 | 128 |
| Total shaders | 1024 | 640 |
| FLOPS | - | 2073.6 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.3 | - |
| OpenCL version | 3.0 | - |
| DirectX version | 12 | - |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Da Vinci | Neural Engine |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5X |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 4266 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 68.2 Gb/s | 68.2 Gb/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | UFS 4.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | - |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 48MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 120FPS |
| 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 - AAX - AAX+ - AC-3 - AIFF - CAF - E-AC-3 - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | Balong 6000 | Snapdragon X80 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 10000 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 3700 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 7 | 7 |
| Bluetooth | 5.4 | 6.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | October 2026 | September 2025 |
| Class | Mid range | Flagship |
| Model number | Hi36C0V110 | APL1V13 |
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