Apple A18 vs HiSilicon Kirin 935

VS

Apple A18

HiSilicon Kirin 935

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz HiSilicon Kirin 935 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.087 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +1956%

1789

HiSilicon Kirin 935

87

Apple A18

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 935

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

4040 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

512 MB

3 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-T628 MP4

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

5

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

8

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.087 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.1

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

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 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

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

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

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