HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Apple A18 Pro

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Apple A18 Pro +232%

1938352

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Apple A18 Pro +329%

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2600 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

720 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

10

Execution units

6

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

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 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, 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. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

-

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