Apple A11 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Apple A11 Bionic

HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2390MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A11 Bionic

409550

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +42%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A11 Bionic +31%

1097

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A11 Bionic +10%

2357

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

FP32 (float)

Apple A11 Bionic

409

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +26%

518

Apple A11 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2390 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

7 nm

4.3

Transistor count

6.9

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A11 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

1066 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

3

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

36

4

Max size

8

0.4093 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.1

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2436 x 1125

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W72

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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