Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 985

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

HiSilicon Kirin 985

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.652 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2580MHz vs 2490MHz)

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

HiSilicon Kirin 985 +13%

652

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 985

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2580 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP8

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

4

Execution units

8

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

12

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.652 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

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)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

是

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2688 x 1242

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, VP8, VP9

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

是

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1277 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 177 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Apr 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

Hi6290

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