Apple A13 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 980
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 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
Apple A13 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2600MHz)
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
+52%
891274
HiSilicon Kirin 980
583410
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
+21%
0.629 TFLOPS
HiSilicon Kirin 980
0.518 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2650 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
8 MB
L2 cache
4 MB
-
L3 cache
0
7 nm
Process
7 nm
8.5
Transistor count
6.9
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
4
Execution units
10
64
Shading units
36
4
Max size
8
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5184 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
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
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
-
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
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
-
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
No
5G support
No
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
