Apple A14 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A14 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 11 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.6543 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A14 Bionic +52%

1061696

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

695853

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A14 Bionic +110%

2087

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

990

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A14 Bionic +51%

4820

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

3179

FP32 (float)

Apple A14 Bionic

654

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +5%

691

Apple A14 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

3100 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

5 nm

Process

7 nm

11.8

Transistor count

8

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A14 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

4

Execution units

16

64

Shading units

36

6

Max size

12

0.6543 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 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

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Da Vinci

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

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

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W01

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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