Kirin 980 vs A13 Bionic
We compared the 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 980 (Mali G76 MP10) with the newer 6-core Apple A13 Bionic (Apple A13 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 more cores
Pros of Apple A13 Bionic
- Announced 1-year and 1-month later
- Shows better (up to 20%) AnTuTu 8 score – 470K vs 392K
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 134572 | 150992 |
| GPU | 135339 | 218713 |
| Memory | 65549 | 79312 |
| UX | 67634 | 12628 |
| Total score | 392454 | 470004 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 123.8 Mpixels/s | 151.6 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 20.4 images/s | 29.65 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 47.2 words/s | 87.4 words/s |
| Machine learning | 47.4 images/s | 72.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 23.2 images/s | 33.75 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 2.39 Mnodes/s | 3.81 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 655 Krows/s | 901.1 Krows/s |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 56 FPS [Ultra] |
57 FPS [Ultra] |
| Call of Duty: Mobile | 39 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Fortnite | 28 FPS [High] |
60 FPS [High] |
| Shadowgun Legends | 51 FPS [Ultra] |
- |
| World of Tanks Blitz | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Genshin Impact | - | 59 FPS [Ultra] |
| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Device | Huawei Nova 5T 1080 x 2340 |
Apple iPhone 11 Pro 828 x 1792 |
We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Kirin 980 and A13 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
2x 2.66 GHz – Lightning 4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2600 MHz | 2660 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | 48 KB |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | 4 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 6.9 billion | 8.5 billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali G76 MP10 | Apple A13 Bionic GPU |
| Architecture | Bifrost | - |
| GPU frequency | 720 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 10 | 4 |
| Shading units | 160 | - |
| FLOPS | 691 Gigaflops | 736 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 | 2.1 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12.1 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | - |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 2x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 31.78 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 8 GB | - |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | Yes, Neural Engine |
| Storage type | UFS 3.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3120 x 1440 | 2688 x 1242 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP | - |
| 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 | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ |
Connectivity
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 21 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 1400 Mbps | Up to 1200 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 200 Mbps | Up to 220 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | August 2018 | September 2019 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Official page | HiSilicon Kirin 980 official site | - |
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