What do you think of Kirin 980? Will it outrun Apple’s chip Bionic A12? Apple introduced the iPhone XS a few days ago with the new Bionic A12 processor based on a 7nm process. Just a few weeks before, Huawei had introduced its own 7nm processor, the Kirin 980.
Huawei’s processor will make its debut on October 16 with the upcoming Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and Huawei mentioned at an event in Dubai that it is confident that their processor will be better than Apple’s A12. Until now, Apple chips have outperformed Huawei chips in terms of performance.
Huawei is working on the Kirin 980 for over three years and there are three areas in which Huawei is focused: Power and Efficiency, Intelligence and Connectivity.
The Kirin 980 has 6.9 billion transistors, which is exactly the same number that Apple has integrated into the A12 Bionic. Huawei says that the Kirin 980 is 75% faster than its predecessor generation in terms of CPU and 46% faster in terms of GPU.
Energy efficiency is 57% better on the processor and 178% better on the graphics processor. These developments aimed to make the Kirin 980 faster and much more efficient.
In terms of intelligence, Huawei has doubled its NPU, with real-time video processing and the ability to recognize 4,500 images per minute. The AI load prediction also makes the processor much smarter when it comes to knowing when it needs to deliver high performance and when it needs to be reduced to save energy.
After all, the Kirin 980 will be the world’s first processor to support LTE Cat.21 with a maximum download speed of 1.4 Gbps.
The Kirin 980 is profiled as one of the most interesting processors of this year and it will be interesting to know how it compares to the latest from Apple.