HiSilicon Kirin 8020 vs Apple A18

SOC · Specs Compare

Products
SOC Apple A18 Apple
CPU
Architecture
1x 2.285 GHz –3x 2.05 GHz –4x 1.3 GHz –
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
2285 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
7 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
SMIC
TSMC
L2 cache
—
8 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Maleoon 920
Apple A18 GPU
GPU frequency
840 MHz
1490 MHz
Shading units
512
128
Vulkan version
1.3
—
OpenCL version
2.0
—
DirectX version
12
—
Execution units
—
5
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
3750 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
60 Gb/s
AI
NPU
Da Vinci
Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
—
35 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
NVMe
Video capture
4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Neural Engine
Max camera resolution
—
1x 48MP
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
Yes
Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
5.4
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
4G support
—
LTE Cat. 24
Download speed
—
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
—
Up to 3500 Mbps
Info
Announced
May 2025
Sep 2024
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
—
APL1V08
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
968,920
1,622,118
FP32 (float)
1,720
1,907
Geekbench 6
—
3,466
Geekbench 6
—
8,592
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.