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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.6298 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2650MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
665287
Apple A13 Bionic +33%
891274
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +9%
0.691 TFLOPS
Apple A13 Bionic
0.629 TFLOPS

AnTuTu 9

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning 4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
2860 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache
2 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
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7 nm
Process
7 nm
8
Transistor count
8.5
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
600 MHz
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
16
Execution units
4
36
Shading units
64
12
Max size
4
0.6912 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.1
12
DirectX version
12.1

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

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NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
5 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
NVMe
3360 x 1440
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
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-
-
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
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4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VC-1
Video codecs
- H.264 - H.265 - Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC - AAX - AAX+ - AC-3 - AIFF - CAF - E-AC-3 - MP3 - MP4 - WAV
Balong 5000
Modem
-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 4600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 1250 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019
Announced
Sep 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
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-
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Official page
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Image compression

Face detection

Speech recognition

Machine learning

Camera shooting

HTML 5

SQLite

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