HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G 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 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2490MHz)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +3%

665287

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

969

Apple A12 Bionic +34%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +11%

3176

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +19%

691

Apple A12 Bionic

576

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2860 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

2 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

7 nm

Process

7 nm

8

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

16

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

64

12

Max size

4

0.6912 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)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

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

Balong 5000

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

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