Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) vs HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Apple A series HiSilicon Kirin
• CPU group
  Apple A15 HiSilicon Kirin 990
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  15 8
• Predecessor
  Apple A14 Bionic --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• Frequency
  3.23 GHz 1.95 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.36 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores) ARM Mali-G76 MP14
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.60 GHz
• Execution units
  160 14
• Shader
  1280 224
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  12 Bifrost 3
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q3/2018

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G and Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  1 4
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) and HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W 6 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) and Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU), virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  16.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  A15 Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q3/2019