Apple A11 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 980
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
HiSilicon Kirin 980 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Released 11 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
HiSilicon Kirin 980
+42%
583410
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+31%
1097
HiSilicon Kirin 980
835
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+10%
2357
HiSilicon Kirin 980
2132
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
409
HiSilicon Kirin 980
+26%
518
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2390 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
4 MB
-
L3 cache
0
10 nm
Process
7 nm
4.3
Transistor count
6.9
8 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
3
Execution units
10
64
Shading units
36
4
Max size
8
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5184 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.3
2.1
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)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Aug 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W72
Model number
-
