Apple A18 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 985

VS

Apple A18 Pro HiSilicon Kirin 985

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro 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

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.652 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2580MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +241%

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 985

652

Apple A18 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 985

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

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

3890 MHz

Frequency

2580 MHz

6

Cores

8

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP8

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

6

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

12

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.652 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

是

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

是

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

-

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

Yes

5G support

是

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1277 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 177 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Apr 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi6290

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