Apple A14 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 980. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Apple A14 HiSilicon Kirin 980
• Family
  Apple A series HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  14 7
• Predecessor
  Apple A13 Bionic -
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Successor
  Apple A15 Bionic -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  2x Firestorm 2x Cortex-A76
• B-Core
  4x Icestorm 2x Cortex-A76
• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 1.8 GHz
• C-Core
  - 4x Cortex-A55
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  6 8
• CPU Threads
  6 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 1.9 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 2.6 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  4 10
• Generation
  11 Bifrost 3
• GPU Frequency
  1800 MHz 720 MHz
• GPU name
  Apple A14 ARM Mali-G76 MP10
• GPU Turbo
  3010 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 4 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q3/2018
• Shader
  0 160
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  Decode No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 980 and Apple A14 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  6 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-2133

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A14 Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 980 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  7 W 6 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A14 Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 980, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  A14 (Firestorm/Icestorm) Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  4 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 2 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q4/2018
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None