Apple A17 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Apple A17 Pro

HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro 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 A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +164%

1544984

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +314%

2147

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Apple A17 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

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

3780 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

7 nm

19

Transistor count

6.9

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

6

Execution units

10

128

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 48MP

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, AV1, VP8, VP9, 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

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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