29

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

85

Points
Apple A18
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Apple A18 SoCs by Hisilicon and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970 13
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 10
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 29
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Apple A18
CPU 77046 421143
GPU 90560 615010
Memory 66398 178670
UX 59977 345874
Total score 293981 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 71.19% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (4040 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 100.96% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 70% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (3 vs 10 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 430.88% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,561 K vs 294 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Apple A18

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Apple A18

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

45%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Bifrost Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 12 -
  • Shading units 192 128
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 1200 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
13%
GPU
10%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

Apple A18

CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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