HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs Apple A17 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 985

Apple A17 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs. 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.652 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2580MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 985

652

Apple A17 Pro +229%

2147

HiSilicon Kirin 985

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

2580 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

-

L2 cache

16 MB

7 nm

Process

3 nm

-

Transistor count

19

6 W

TDP

8 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP8

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

700 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

8

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

128

12

Max size

8

0.652 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

是

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, 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+

Balong 5000

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

是

5G support

Yes

Up to 1277 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 177 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Apr 2020

Announced

Sep 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi6290

Model number

APL1V02

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