HiSilicon Kirin 9030 Pro
vs
Apple A13 Bionic

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 9030 Pro and Apple A13 Bionic mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Frequency: 2750 MHz (2750 MHz vs 2650 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: November 2025 (November 2025 vs September 2019)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
Apple
November 2025
Launch Date
September 2019
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
SMIC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Kirin 9030 Pro
Model Name
A13 Bionic
1x 2.75 GHz
3x 1.72 GHz
4x 2.27 GHz
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
8
Cores
6
7 nm
Technology
7 nm
2750 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
-
Transistor count
8.5

GPU Specifications

-
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
-
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
-
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
-
Shading units
64
-
Execution units
4
-
OpenCL version
2.1
-
Vulkan version
1.1
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
-
DirectX version
12.1

Connectivity

Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
7
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
-
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

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L2 Cache
8 MB
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Storage type
NVMe
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
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TDP
6 W
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
Da Vinci
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 9030 Pro
1717
A13 Bionic
1755 +2%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 9030 Pro
5933 +42%
A13 Bionic
4168
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 9030 Pro
1785744 +124%
A13 Bionic
795606