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Apple A12Z Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 820e

Apple A12Z Bionic

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The Apple A12Z Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPad Pro 11 and 12.5-inch from 2020. It offers 8 cores divided in four performance cores and four power efficiency cores (up from the 6 cores in the A12 of the iPhone XS). The difference to the older Apple A12X Bionic in the iPad Pro 2018 models seems to be an additional GPU core. Regarding CPU Apple noted: "Enhanced thermal design means higher peak and longer sustained performance". More details were not published by Apple, so it may be even the same chip with an additional enabled GPU core. On the other hand, it could be also manufactured in an improved 7nm (EUV?) process and offer higher clock rates. As Apple states no performance improvements on the CPU side, we don't expect big gains. However, the A12X was a very fast ARM based SoC and currently there is no competitor in the Android space that should beat the performance.

The chip also includes the M12 Motion co-processor and a Neural Engine with 8 cores for up to 5 trillion operations per second (unverified, numbers from the A12X).

The Apple A12X included 10 billion transistors (A12 6.9 billion) and the A12Z should be therefore offer a similar amount. This makes it a quite big chip, especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core SoC (1.75 Billion).

HiSilicon Kirin 820e

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The HiSilicon Kirin 820e is a ARM-based mid-range Octa-Core-SoC for Android based smartphones and tablets. It was announced 2022 and contains 8 processor cores. One fast ARM Cortex-A76 core with up to 2.22 GHz, three addition A76 cores at up to 2 and four efficiency Cortex-A55 cores at up to 1.84 GHz. Furthermore, the SoC integrates a 5G modem and a fast mid-range ARM Mali-G57 MP6 graphics card. For AI acceleration, the Kirin 820 integrates a DaVinci NPU. Compared to the similar named Kirin 820, the 820e offers slower clocked CPU cores on a level with the older Kirin 810.

The chip should also integrate Bluetooth 5 and WiFi 6.

The SoC is manufactured in the modern 7nm process at TSMC and therefore should be very energy efficient.

ModelApple A12Z BionicHiSilicon Kirin 820e
SeriesApple Apple A-SeriesHiSilicon
CodenameVortex, TempestCortex-A76/-A55
Series: Cortex-A76/-A55
Apple A12Z Bionic « - 2.49 GHz8 / 8 cores Vortex, Tempest
Apple A12X Bionic compare - 2.49 GHz8 / 8 cores Vortex, Tempest
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G compare - 2.86 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A76/-A55
HiSilicon Kirin 990 compare - 2.86 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A76/-A55
HiSilicon Kirin 820 compare1.84 - 2.36 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A76/-A55
HiSilicon Kirin 820e « 1.84 - 2.22 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A76/-A55
HiSilicon Kirin 810 compare1.88 - 2.27 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A76/-A55
HiSilicon Kirin 980 compare - 2.6 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A76/-A55
Clock <=2490 MHz1840 - 2220 MHz
L1 Cache2 MB
L2 Cache8 MB
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Transistors10000 Million
Technology7 nm7 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction SetARM Mali-G52 MP6 GPU, 1x Cortex-A76 up to 2.22 GHz, 3x A76 nup to 2.2 GHz, 4x A55 up to 1.84 GHz, big.LITTLE, 5G TDD/FDD, Bluetooth 5, WiFi 6, AGPS, Glonass, Baidou
iGPUApple A12Z Bionic GPUARM Mali-G57 MP6
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.hisilicon.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 40279     avg: 40289     median: 40289 (34%)     max: 40299 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
3725 Points (44%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1117     avg: 1122     median: 1122 (47%)     max: 1127 Points
566 Points (24%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4707     avg: 4710     median: 4709.5 (8%)     max: 4712 Points
1853 Points (3%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
2820 Points (28%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
7841 Points (9%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
2834 Points (39%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
7461 Points (18%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
6933 Points (11%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
2344 Points (35%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
646 ms (1%)
2174 ms (3%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
125 ms (1%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
114 ms (1%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 42372     avg: 42618     median: 42425 (38%)     max: 43057 Points
18755 Points (17%)
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
64 Points (18%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 140     avg: 158.3     median: 141 (29%)     max: 194 Points
86 Points (18%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
min: 77253     avg: 77589     median: 77588.5 (65%)     max: 77924 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
min: 74998     avg: 92841     median: 92841 (75%)     max: 110684 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
min: 373781     avg: 375589     median: 375589 (69%)     max: 377397 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
min: 185841     avg: 186014     median: 186014 (67%)     max: 186186 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
min: 712218     avg: 732032     median: 732032 (71%)     max: 751846 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
287379 Points (17%)
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
95606 Points (26%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
3553 Points (0%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
552 Points (21%)
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
3.4 Watt (1%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
1 Watt (1%)

Average Benchmarks Apple A12Z Bionic → 100% n=5

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 820e → 59% n=5

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)