Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 980
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2600MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+121%
1290037
HiSilicon Kirin 980
583410
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+179%
2333
HiSilicon Kirin 980
835
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+169%
5741
HiSilicon Kirin 980
2132
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+230%
1.712 TFLOPS
HiSilicon Kirin 980
0.518 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
3230 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
12 MB
L2 cache
4 MB
-
L3 cache
0
5 nm
Process
7 nm
15
Transistor count
6.9
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
5
Execution units
10
128
Shading units
36
6
Max size
8
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5184 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
2732 x 2048
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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
-
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Aug 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
-
