HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs Apple A12 Bionic

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Frequency
2860 MHz
2490 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv8.3-A
L1 cache
512 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
7 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
8
6.9
TDP
6 W
6 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G76 MP16
Apple A12 GPU
GPU frequency
600 MHz
1125 MHz
Execution units
16
4
Shading units
36
64
Vulkan version
1.3
1.1
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12
12

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
Neural Engine
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3360 x 1440
2688 x 1242
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VC-1
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Max camera resolution
-
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 19
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
5.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced
Oct 2019
Sep 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Official page
-
Model number
-
APL1W81

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
695,853
643,548
Geekbench 6
990
1,301
Geekbench 6
3,179
2,843
FP32 (float)
691
576