Apple A18 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 8000

Compared 2 processors: Apple A18 Pro, vs HiSilicon Kirin 8000. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A18 Pro and HiSilicon Kirin 8000
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 A18 Pro
1813449
HiSilicon Kirin 8000
574704
CPU465726178879
GPU721738118109
Memory250875128205
UX375110149511
NanoReview Score1813449574704
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A18 Pro
3582
HiSilicon Kirin 8000
999
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A18 Pro
9089
HiSilicon Kirin 8000
2948
File Compression300.1 MB/s137.2 MB/s
HTML5 Browser193.3 pages/s70.9 pages/s
PDF Rendering215.2 MP/sec108.9 MP/sec
Background Blur39.2 frames/s10.3 frames/s
Photo Processing90.3 frames/s26.3 frames/s
Image Detection322.7 frames/s55.8 frames/s
HDR294.3 MP/sec91.7 MP/sec
Ray Tracing9.08 MP/sec4.05 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
- 1x 2.4 GHz – 1xA77 H
- 3x 2.19 GHz – 1xA77 L
- 4x 1.84 GHz – A55
Process TSMC SMIC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 4050 2400
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.2-A
L2 cache 16 MB n/a
Process tech. 3 nm 7 nm
Power (TDP) 10 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A18 Pro GPU Mali-G610 MP4
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Valhall 3rd gen
GPU Frequency 1490 MHz 864 MHz
Execution Units 6 4
Shader Units 128 64
Total shader 768 256
FLOPS 2289 GFLOPS 442.3 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 Neural Engine Yes
GPU Frequency 35 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 3750 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 60 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 8 GB 12 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 2.2
- UFS 3.1
Camera 1x48 pixels n/a
Video recording 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X75 Balong
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 3500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 7 6
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2024 yr October, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1V07 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A18 Pro the clear winner in this comparison.

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