HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2490MHz)

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Apple A12 Bionic +10%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Apple A12 Bionic +55%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Apple A12 Bionic +33%

2843

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Apple A12 Bionic +11%

576

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

2600 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

4 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

720 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

10

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

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, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

-

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

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