Kirin 990 (5G) vs A13 Bionic
We compared the 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G) (Mali G76 MP16) with the older 6-core Apple A13 Bionic (Apple A13 Bionic 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/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G)
- Has 2 more cores
- Performs 22% better in floating-point computations
- 8% higher CPU clock speed (2860 vs 2660 MHz)
Pros of Apple A13 Bionic
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 154284 | 150992 |
| GPU | 174684 | 218713 |
| Memory | 100370 | 79312 |
| UX | 70979 | 12628 |
| Total score | 488306 | 473084 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | - | 151.6 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | - | 29.65 images/s |
| Speech recognition | - | 87.4 words/s |
| Machine learning | - | 72.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | - | 33.75 images/s |
| HTML 5 | - | 3.81 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | - | 901.1 Krows/s |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 58 FPS [Ultra] |
57 FPS [Ultra] |
| Call of Duty: Mobile | 44 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Fortnite | 30 FPS [High] |
60 FPS [High] |
| World of Tanks Blitz | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Genshin Impact | - | 59 FPS [Ultra] |
| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 59 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Device | Huawei Honor 30 Pro Plus 1200 x 2640 |
Apple iPhone 11 Pro 828 x 1792 |
We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Kirin 990 (5G) and A13 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
2x 2.66 GHz – Lightning 4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2860 MHz | 2660 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | - | 48 KB |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | 4 MB |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 8 billion | 8.5 billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali G76 MP16 | Apple A13 Bionic GPU |
| Architecture | Bifrost | - |
| GPU frequency | 700 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 16 | 4 |
| Shading units | 256 | - |
| FLOPS | 896 Gigaflops | 736 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12.1 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | - |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 2x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 31.78 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 12 GB | - |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Da Vinci | Yes, Neural Engine |
| Storage type | UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2688 x 1242 |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VC-1 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ |
Connectivity
| Modem | Balong 5G | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 21 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed | Up to 2300 Mbps | Up to 1200 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 1250 Mbps | Up to 220 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | October 2019 | September 2019 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Official page | HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G) official site | - |
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