Kirin 980 vs A12 Bionic
We compared the 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 980 (Mali G76 MP10) with the newer 6-core Apple A12 Bionic (Apple A12 Bionic GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs and comprehensive tests in benchmarks like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 980
- Has 2 cores more
Pros of Apple A12 Bionic
- Performs 45% better in floating-point computations
- Supports 7% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 31.78 GB/s)
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
AnTuTu Benchmark 8
Specifications
CPU
| Architecture | 2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2600 MHz | 2490 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | 8 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 6.9 billion | 6.9 billion |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali G76 MP10 | Apple A12 Bionic GPU |
| Architecture | Bifrost | - |
| GPU frequency | 720 MHz | - |
| Cores | 10 | 4 |
| FLOPS | 691 Gigaflops | 1000 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 1x 64 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 31.78 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | Yes |
| Storage type | UFS 3.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3120 x 1440 | 2688 x 1242 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP | 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | Protected AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3 |
Connectivity
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 21 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 1400 Mbps | Up to 1000 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 200 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | August 2018 | September 2018 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Official page | HiSilicon Kirin 980 official site | - |
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