Apple A17 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +122%

1549189

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

695853

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +210%

2147

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

691

Apple A17 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

3780 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

3 nm

Process

7 nm

19

Transistor count

8

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

16

128

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Da Vinci

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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