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Apple A6 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000W

Apple A6

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The Apple A6 is a dual-core SoC found in the iPhone 5 with ARM compatible CPU cores. The A6 was developed by Apple and supports the extended ARMv7s instruction set. The clock rate of the CPU is between 800 to 1200 MHz depending on the CPU load. The integrated GPU is a PowerVR SGX543MP3 at 266 MHz.

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

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The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 is a quad-core SoC primarily for inexpensive notebooks and was announced late 2019. It runs at 1.1-3.1 GHz (Single Core Burst) and is based on the Gemini Lake platform. The 5030 is the refresh of the older Pentium 5000 and offers a 400 MHz higher Boost clock. Similar to the Apollo Lake predecessor, the chip is manufactured in a 14 nm process with FinFETs but offers slightly improved processor cores, double the amount of L2 cache, a smaller package, a better GPU architecture and a partly integrated WiFi support. Besides four CPU cores, the chip also includes a DirectX 12 capable GPU as well as a DDR4/LPDDR4 memory controller (dual-channel, up to 2400 MHz). The SoC is not replaceable as it is directly soldered to the mainboard.

Architecture

The processor architecture is still called Goldmont Plus. Compared to the older Goldmont cores in Apollo Lake, they feature an increased level 2 cache (to 4 MB). That means the per-clock-performance should be a bit better, but not near the Core CPUs like Kaby Lake Y.

Performance

The average N5030 in our database proves unable to beat the AMD 3020e, an entry-level dual-core CPU of similar power efficiency, in multi-thread performance, rendering the Pentium a poor option for anything but the most basic day-to-day activities, as of late 2022.

GPU Performance

The UHD Graphics 605 (Gemini Lake) is based on Intel's Gen9 architecture, which supports DirectX 12 and is also used for the Kaby Lake / Skylake / Apollo Lake graphics adapters (like HD Graphics 520). Equipped with 18 EUs and a clock of up to 750 MHz, the performance should be roughly on par with the older HD Graphics 5300 and HD Graphics 505 (Apollo Lake).

The chip also includes an advanced video engine with hardware support for the playback of VP9 and H.265 material (8-bit color-depth).

Power consumption

Like most N-class Intel chips, the Pentium has a default TDP, also known as the long-term power limit, of 6 W. This is low and thus good enough for passively cooled tablets, laptops, mini-PCs and handhelds.

The Intel Pentium N5030 is built with one of the old 14 nm Intel processes making for poor, as of early 2023, energy efficiency.

HiSilicon Kirin 9000W

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The HiSilicon Kirin 9000W is an SoC that can be used in smartphones and tablets based on Android and was first installed in the Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2.

Huawei does not reveal any information about the SoC. The little information that is available comes from benchmarks and system analysis tools. The CPU consists of three clusters with a total of 12 cores. The power-saving cluster has four ARM Cortex-A510 cores, each operating at up to 1,530 MHz, while six other cores use unspecified cores from HiSilicon (0x0D42) and clock at up to 2,150 MHz. The third cluster contains two HiSilicon cores (0x0D02), each with a maximum clock speed of 2,487 MHz. The performance cores could possibly be based on the TaiShan V120 architecture (as in the Kirin 9000S).

The single-core performance is correspondingly mixed, but the multi-core performance is at the level of a high-end SoC from 2022 due to the numerous cores.

A Maleoon 910 by HiSilicon is integrated as the graphics unit, similar to the 9000S (where it was clocked with up to 750MHz).

Nothing concrete is known about the manufacturing process or the architecture. The SoC will probably be manufactured in 7 nm at SMIC.

ModelApple A6Intel Pentium Silver N5030HiSilicon Kirin 9000W
SeriesApple Intel Gemini Lake
Series:
newitem cores
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK32881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHzcores
Apple A6 « 1 GHzcores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi36201.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK31681.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR86700.08 GHzcores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+STcores
unknown cores
Intel Pentium Silver J50402 - 3.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Intel Pentium Silver N5030 « 1.1 - 3.1 GHz4 / 4 cores
Intel Celeron J41252 - 2.7 GHz4 / 4 cores
Intel Celeron N41201.1 - 2.6 GHz4 / 4 cores
Intel Celeron J40252 - 2.9 GHz2 / 2 cores
Intel Celeron N40201.1 - 2.8 GHz2 / 2 cores
newitem cores
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W « 1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK32881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHzcores
Apple A61 GHzcores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi36201.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK31681.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR86700.08 GHzcores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+STcores
unknown cores
Clock1000 MHz1100 - 3100 MHz1530 - 2490 MHz
Cores / Threads24 / 412 / 12
2 x 2.5 GHz
6 x 2.2 GHz
4 x 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A510
Technology32 nm14 nm7 nm
ArchitectureARMx86ARM
Announced
CodenameGemini Lake Refresh
L2 Cache4 MB
TDP6 Watt
max. Temp.105 °C
SocketBGA1090
FeaturesDDR4-2400/LPDDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 2, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, VMX, SMEP, SMAP, MPX, EIST, TM1, TM2, Turbo, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SGX
iGPUIntel UHD Graphics 605 (200 - 750 MHz)HiSilicon Maleoon 910
Manufacturerark.intel.com

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - Pentium N5030
17.6 pt (24%)
Intel Pentium Silver N5030
17.6
max:
72.1 310%
0%
100%
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
911 Points (1%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
430 Points (18%)
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
min: 171     avg: 182.5     median: 182.5 (20%)     max: 194 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
min: 360     avg: 425.5     median: 425.5 (1%)     max: 491 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 203     avg: 226     median: 226 (1%)     max: 248.9 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
min: 75.8     avg: 80.9     median: 80.9 (24%)     max: 86 Points
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
3.1 Points (4%)
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
1 Points (25%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
2498 Points (15%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
7724 Points (6%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
526 s (6%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
14.7 s (3%)
WinRAR - WinRAR 4.0
1163 Points (2%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multli Thread 4 runs
min: 6598     avg: 7238     median: 7238 (4%)     max: 7878 MIPS
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
min: 2555     avg: 2645     median: 2645 (32%)     max: 2735 MIPS
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
17.6 fps (6%)
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
84 fps (19%)
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
0.7 fps (1%)
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
min: 3319     avg: 3450     median: 3449.5 (24%)     max: 3580 Seconds
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
min: 1.402     avg: 1.4     median: 1.4 (31%)     max: 1.473 sec
3DMark 06 - CPU - 3DMark 06 - CPU
3895 Points (8%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
24.9 s (5%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
55.9 s (2%)
Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
1247 s (6%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
min: 2326     avg: 2377     median: 2377 (6%)     max: 2428 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
23701 Points (19%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
23621 Points (19%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 26682     avg: 31360     median: 31360 (26%)     max: 36038 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
min: 2155     avg: 2183     median: 2182.5 (6%)     max: 2210 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
min: 3014     avg: 3209     median: 3209 (6%)     max: 3404 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
704 Points (3%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
2857 Points (34%)
5690 Points (67%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
3123 Points (36%)
5614 Points (64%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Single-Core
1174 Points (32%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Multi-Core
4088 Points (16%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 431     avg: 491.7     median: 512 (22%)     max: 532 Points
867 Points (37%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1039     avg: 1263     median: 1221 (2%)     max: 1529 Points
3878 Points (7%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
356 Points (2%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
1177 Points (4%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
2176 Points (22%)
4712 Points (47%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
5662 Points (6%)
13978 Points (15%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A6 +
1273 Points (2%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A6 +
min: 701     avg: 706     median: 705.5 (14%)     max: 710 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 A6 +
940 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
1 A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
1 A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
14535 ms (17%)
min: 1914     avg: 2410     median: 2170 (3%)     max: 3145 ms
1202 ms (1%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
355.8 ms (4%)
203.8 ms (2%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
1 A6 +
935 ms (9%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 21894     avg: 21899     median: 21899 (19%)     max: 21904 Points
33982 Points (30%)
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
99 Points (28%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 91.3     avg: 100.9     median: 95.4 (20%)     max: 116 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
655341 Points (40%)
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
182634 Points (50%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 A6 +
24996 Points (3%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
8984 Points (47%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
31170 Points (67%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
9447 Points (62%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
13200 Points (66%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random write internal
110.5 MB/s (81%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq write internal
1435 MB/s (44%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random read internal
63.2 MB/s (78%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq read internal
1522 MB/s (42%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 score
45015 Points (71%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 3.0
10620 Points (49%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
834 Points (32%)
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 9.09     avg: 9.8     median: 9.8 (2%)     max: 10.5 Watt
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 7.98     avg: 8.8     median: 8.8 (2%)     max: 9.6 Watt
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
8.2 Watt (4%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
4.6 Watt (5%)
4.2 Watt (5%)
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Efficiency - external Monitor
min: 25.4     avg: 25.7     median: 25.7 (19%)     max: 25.9 Points per Watt

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 100% n=2

Average Benchmarks Intel Pentium Silver N5030 → 111% n=2

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 9000W → 112% n=2

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