Apple A18 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Apple A18 Pro HiSilicon Kirin 960

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +594%

1938352

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +740%

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Apple A18 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

3890 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

6

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

3 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

4

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

6

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

-

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3660

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