HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Apple A18
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A762x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
2600 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
512 KB
-
L2 cache
0
8 MB
L3 cache
0
-
Process
7 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
6.9
-
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
Apple A18 GPU
GPU frequency
720 MHz
1490 MHz
Execution units
10
5
Shading units
36
128
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
3750 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
60 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
Neural Engine
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
-
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
7
Bluetooth
5.0
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
AI
NPU
-
Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
35 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
583,410
1,622,118
Geekbench 6
835
3,466
Geekbench 6
2,132
8,592
FP32 (float)
518
1,907