HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Apple A10 Fusion

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2340MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +67%

583410

Apple A10 Fusion

347439

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Apple A10 Fusion +5%

879

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +60%

2132

Apple A10 Fusion

1332

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +108%

518

Apple A10 Fusion

249

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Apple A10 Fusion

CPU

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr

2600 MHz

Frequency

2340 MHz

8

Cores

4

4 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

16 nm

6.9

Transistor count

3.3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

720 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

10

Execution units

6

36

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M10

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M10

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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Modem

Qualcomm MDM9645M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Sep 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W24

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

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