Apple A18 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Apple A18 Pro

HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years and 5 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +1836%

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Apple A18 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

4040 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

16 nm

10 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

6

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

-

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Snapdragon X75

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

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