Apple A13 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

Compared 2 processors: Apple A13 Bionic, vs HiSilicon Kirin 980. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A13 Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 980
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
904817
HiSilicon Kirin 980
591752
CPU181570193866
GPU312411159831
Memory147974114872
UX262862123183
NanoReview Score904817591752
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A13 Bionic
6872
HiSilicon Kirin 980
2477
Stability68 %48 %
Graphics Test41 fps14 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A13 Bionic
1748
HiSilicon Kirin 980
834
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A13 Bionic
4161
HiSilicon Kirin 980
2128
File Compression147.7 MB/s94.5 MB/s
HTML5 Browser87.5 pages/s50.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering104.2 MP/sec62.5 MP/sec
Background Blur14.3 frames/s6.54 frames/s
Photo Processing39.3 frames/s18.5 frames/s
Image Detection74 frames/s48 frames/s
HDR125.4 MP/sec54.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.6 MP/sec2.59 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile 57 FPS (Ultra) 56 FPS (Ultra)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS (Ultra) 39 FPS (Ultra)
FortniteFortnite 60 FPS (High) 28 FPS (High)
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends n/a 51 FPS (Ultra)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz 60 FPS (Ultra) 60 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact 60 FPS (Ultra) 60 FPS (Ultra)
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang 59 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Device Apple iPhone 11 Pro (828x1792) Huawei Nova 5T (1080x2340)

Processor

Architecture - 2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
- 2/2.6 (Cortex-A76)
- 2/1.92 (Cortex-A76)
- 4/1.8 (Cortex-A55)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 2650 2600
Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 4 MB
Process tech. 7 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 8.5 billion 6.9 billion
Power (TDP) 6 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A13 GPU Mali-G76 MP10
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Bifrost 3rd gen
GPU Frequency 1230 MHz 720 MHz
Execution Units 4 10
Shader Units 64 24
Total shader 256 240
FLOPS 629.8 GFLOPS 345.6 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
OpenCL n/a 2.0

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine Yes
GPU Frequency 5 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max RAM 4 GB 8 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 2.1
- UFS 3.0
Max. resolution 2688x1242 pixels 3120x1440 pixels
Camera n/a 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 21
5G Support No No
Download speed Up to 1200 MB/s Up to 1400 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 350 MB/s Up to 200 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced September, 2019 yr August, 2018 yr
Class Flagship Flagship

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A13 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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