Apple A18 vs HiSilicon Kirin 8020

Compared 2 processors: Apple A18, vs HiSilicon Kirin 8020. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A18 and HiSilicon Kirin 8020
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
1605038
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
1326372
CPU431354430571
GPU598981551063
Memory208837212421
UX365876132317
NanoReview Score16050381326372
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A18
3466
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
1350
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A18
8592
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
3570
File Compression286.8 MB/s155.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser184.2 pages/s101.3 pages/s
PDF Rendering201.2 MP/sec117.6 MP/sec
Background Blur36.2 frames/s11.9 frames/s
Photo Processing90 frames/s34.7 frames/s
Image Detection297.2 frames/s60.2 frames/s
HDR279.1 MP/sec95.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing8.68 MP/sec4.78 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
- 1x 2.285 GHz –
- 3x 2.05 GHz –
- 4x 1.3 GHz –
Process TSMC SMIC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 4050 2285
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L2 cache 8 MB n/a
Process tech. 3 nm 7 nm
Power (TDP) 9 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A18 GPU Maleoon 920
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Maleoon
GPU Frequency 1490 MHz 840 MHz
Execution Units 5 4
Shader Units 128 256
Total shader 640 1024
FLOPS 1907 GFLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Neural Engine Da Vinci
GPU Frequency 35 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 3750 MHz 4266 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 60 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 8 GB 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 4.0
Camera 1x48 pixels n/a
Video recording 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
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 n/a
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 7
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2024 yr May, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1V08 n/a

Results

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

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