HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Apple A15 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A15 Bionic 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
HiSilicon Kirin 980
583410
Apple A15 Bionic
+121%
1290037
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 980
835
Apple A15 Bionic
+179%
2333
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 980
2132
Apple A15 Bionic
+169%
5741
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 980
518
Apple A15 Bionic
+230%
1712
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 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
2600 MHz
Frequency
3230 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
4 MB
L2 cache
12 MB
0
L3 cache
-
7 nm
Process
5 nm
6.9
Transistor count
15
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-G76 MP10
GPU name
Apple A15 GPU
720 MHz
GPU frequency
1338 MHz
10
Execution units
5
36
Shading units
128
8
Max size
6
0.5184 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7126 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12
DirectX version
-
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)
Neural Engine
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
NVMe
3120 x 1440
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max camera resolution
-
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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 21
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1400 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Aug 2018
Announced
Sep 2021
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
APL1W07
