HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Apple A11 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Released 11 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 980
+42%
583410
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 980
835
Apple A11 Bionic
+31%
1097
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 980
2132
Apple A11 Bionic
+10%
2357
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 980
+26%
518
Apple A11 Bionic
409
CPU
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
2600 MHz
Frequency
2390 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
4 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
7 nm
Process
10 nm
6.9
Transistor count
4.3
6 W
TDP
8 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-G76 MP10
GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
720 MHz
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
10
Execution units
3
36
Shading units
64
8
Max size
4
0.5184 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.4093 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
2.1
12
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
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
NVMe
3120 x 1440
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 21
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
No
5G support
No
Up to 1400 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Aug 2018
Announced
Sep 2017
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
APL1W72
