Kirin 990 (5G) vs A14 Bionic
We compared the 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G) (Mali G76 MP16) with the newer 6-core Apple A14 Bionic (Apple 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
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
- Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 7 nm)
- Supports 34% higher memory bandwidth (42.7 against 31.78 GB/s)
- Announced later
- Shows better (up to 23%) AnTuTu 8 score – 613K vs 499K
- 8% higher CPU clock speed (3100 vs 2860 MHz)
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 154284 | 173864 |
| GPU | 174684 | 208037 |
| Memory | 100370 | 106696 |
| UX | 70979 | 93575 |
| Total score | 499949 | 613224 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | - | 174.85 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | - | 33.7 images/s |
| Speech recognition | - | 95.65 words/s |
| Machine learning | - | 95.8 images/s |
| Camera shooting | - | 38.45 images/s |
| HTML 5 | - | 4.59 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | - | 1060 Krows/s |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 58 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Call of Duty: Mobile | 44 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Fortnite | 30 FPS [High] |
- |
| World of Tanks Blitz | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 59 FPS [Ultra] |
- |
| Device | Huawei Honor 30 Pro Plus 1200 x 2640 |
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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 A14 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2860 MHz | 3100 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.4-A |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | - |
| L3 cache | - | 8 MB |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 8 billion | 11.8 billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali G76 MP16 | Apple GPU |
| Architecture | Bifrost | - |
| GPU frequency | 700 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 16 | 4 |
| Shading units | 256 | - |
| FLOPS | 896 Gigaflops | - |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | - |
| DirectX version | 12 | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | - |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | - |
| Max bandwidth | 31.78 Gbit/s | 42.7 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 12 GB | 6 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Da Vinci | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2732 x 2048 |
| 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, VP9, 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 | Yes |
| Download speed | Up to 2300 Mbps | - |
| Upload speed | Up to 1250 Mbps | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | October 2019 | September 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | - | APL1W01 |
| Official page | HiSilicon Kirin 990 (5G) official site | - |
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