Apple A14 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Apple A14 Bionic

HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 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

Apple A14 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6543 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A14 Bionic +81%

1061696

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A14 Bionic +149%

2087

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A14 Bionic +126%

4820

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

FP32 (float)

Apple A14 Bionic +26%

654

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Apple A14 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm

Architecture

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

3100 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

7 nm

11.8

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A14 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

4

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

36

6

Max size

8

0.6543 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

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)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

-

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, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2020

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W01

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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