HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A18

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 . 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 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Apple A18 +452%

1539646

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Apple A18 +575%

1789

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Apple A18

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2360 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

8

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11.3

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

-

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

-

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