At the Apple New Product Launch Conference held this morning, the first blockbuster was attacked without any warning. This is the most powerful processor in Apple history - the A12 chip. The A12 chip uses the Kirin 980 released some time ago. The same 7nm process technology, but at the press conference, the spokesman said that A12 is the world's first 7nm commercial chip, I don't know if it is an oolong or something.
As the only two 7nm chips on the market, Apple's A12 and Huawei's Kirin 980 have become the two protagonists of the next-generation mobile phone hardware PK. These two protagonists have also become the focus of media attention around the world. Despite the A12's The official running sub-picture has not yet been sent out, but it seems that some netizens have made relevant information, and combined with the information of the already released Kirin 980, we may wish to make a comprehensive comparison.
The first part is the CPU part. First introduce the Kirin 980. As a representative of the new generation of self-developed processors, the CPU part of the Kirin 980 is the world's first commercial CPU based on the ARM Cortex-A76 organization, with a maximum frequency of 2.6GHz. In addition, the CPU part of Kirin 980 is the first innovative use of Huawei's self-developed Kirin CPU subsystemTM and Flex-Scheduling TM intelligent scheduling mechanism, so that strong performance and optimal performance can be demonstrated simultaneously on Kirin 980.
Look at Apple A12, as Apple's first chip with 7nm technology, the core number of its CPU part has also been upgraded to six, divided into two major cores and four small cores. Two of the performance cores are mainly responsible for high-intensity computing. The performance of the task is 15% higher than that of the previous generation, and the power consumption is reduced by 40%. The four energy-efficient small cores are mainly used to deal with daily simple tasks, with little improvement in performance and lower energy consumption by about 50%.
Next is the GPU part. As the flagship of Huawei's new generation, the GPU part of Kirin 980 is also significantly improved compared with the previous generation. The GPU architecture adopted by Kirin 980 is also the world's first Mali-G76 GPU, combined with Huawei's original GPU. Optimized technology - GPU Turbo, makes it easier for mobile phones to navigate large games, bringing a full-frame smooth gaming experience and endurance experience. At the same time, Kirin 980 can support the world's fastest LPDDR4X particles, clocked at up to 2133MHz. 14% faster than the industry's level.
At this point, Apple's A12 is not too much to let. A12 is also the first use of the four core institutions in the GPU part, which is a GPU architecture that Apple has completely self-developed through long efforts, although it is not clear how its capabilities, but According to the official introduction, its GPU performance has increased by at least 50% compared to the previous generation A11 chip.
Finally, it is also the most critical PK item, which is the hottest part of the AI engine. At this point, Huawei is the first to take the lead. The dual-core NPU solution adopted by Kirin 980 is definitely the ceiling level in the mobile phone industry. Computational power has always been an important parameter to test the computing power of a chip AI. Under the blessing of dual-core NPU, the AI computing power of Kirin 980 has become extremely powerful. Whether it is commonly used face recognition, AI photo, or pick up Huawei's push for object recognition, object detection, intelligent translation and other AI scenes, Kirin 980 can easily be competent.
Speaking of AI capabilities, the A12 chip is by no means a vegetarian. The previous generation A11 chip is the first B-type biochip in the A series. On the basis of the A11, the A12 chip has a more powerful A12 Bionic, which continues the excellent neural network of A11. Engine. AR developers can use this engine to perform up to five trillion real-time operations per second. With the open Core ML platform, the development process of AR developers will become more time-saving and labor-saving.
Conclusion: Through the above three rounds of PK, it can be seen that Kirin 980 and Apple A12 are both 7nm chips, but there are still great differences in specific architecture and technology patents. In order to further direct comparison, I believe that we have to wait until the installation. It will not be known until the Mate 20 of Kirin 980 is released. But there is no doubt that the topics surrounding the two will continue for the next six months.
