HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Apple A13 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2600MHz)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Apple A13 Bionic +52%

891274

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Apple A13 Bionic +21%

629

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

2600 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

4 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

8.5

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

720 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

10

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.1

12

DirectX version

12.1

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

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

5 TOPS

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

-

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

-

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