Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 820
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 31.78GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2360MHz)
HiSilicon Kirin 820 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+29%
643548
HiSilicon Kirin 820
498005
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
HiSilicon Kirin 820
+13%
652
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55
2490 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
7 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G57 MP6
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
850 MHz
4
Execution units
6
64
Shading units
64
4
Max size
12
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.6528 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
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
31.78 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3360 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, AV1, VP9
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
Balong 5000
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 4600 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Mar 2020
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W81
Model number
-
