Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 8020
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
1x 2.285 GHz –3x 2.05 GHz –4x 1.3 GHz –
Frequency
2490 MHz
2285 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
128 KB
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L2 cache
0
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Process
7 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
6.9
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TDP
6 W
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Manufacturing
TSMC
SMIC
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Maleoon 920
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
840 MHz
Execution units
4
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Shading units
64
512
Vulkan version
1.1
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
68.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
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Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
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Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
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Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
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5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
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Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2018
May 2025
Class
Flagship
Mid range
Model number
APL1W81
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AI
NPU
—
Da Vinci
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
968,920
Geekbench 6
1,301
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Geekbench 6
2,843
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FP32 (float)
576
1,720
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.