Apple A18 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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Apple A18 Pro

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro 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 A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +149%

1733863

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

695853

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +222%

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

691

Apple A18 Pro

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

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

4040 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

8

10 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

16

128

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

-

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Snapdragon X75

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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