HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Apple A18 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Lower TDP (9W vs 10W)

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Released 7 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Apple A18 Pro +387%

1733863

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Apple A18 Pro +572%

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2360 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

0

L3 cache

16 MB

10 nm

Process

3 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Apple A18 Pro GPU

768 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

12

Execution units

6

18

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

-

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, VC-1

Video codecs

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

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 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

Sep 2017

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

-

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

-

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