At the IFA Berlin consumer show this year, Huawei first brought the first 7nm chip Kylin 980 in the mobile phone industry and introduced its parameter configuration and Performance. Kirin 980 uses the first cortex-a76-based CPU and also starts the mali-g76 GPU. The performance of the Kylin 980 CPU is higher than 970 and the GPU performance is increased by 46% compared to the 75% 970.
The launch of Kirin 980 not only boosts the performance of mobile gaming to a new level, but also allows us to look forward to the same 7nm process Apple A12 Bionic Chip. A few days later, the Apple A12 Bionic chip was finally unveiled at the autumn press conference on September 13. According to Apple's official presentation, The A12 bionic chip is the smartest, most powerful chip in the smartphone, which contains a total of six cores (composed of two ' performance ' cores and four ' efficiency ' cores), a quad-core GPU (50% faster than A11), and a newer version of the neural engine, a special part of the chip To handle AI tasks. The Apple A11 is powered by a dual-core neural engine, but the A12 bionic neural engine has up to eight cores.
Although the old A11 neural engine can handle 600 billion operations per second, The new version can handle 5 trillion operations per Second. The same 7nm process chip, Apple A12 Bionic and Kylin 980 inevitable a positive battle. According to the data of the Rabbit run platform, A12 Bionic overall score of about 360,000 points, including the CPU part score of over 130,000, GPU Ultra 150,000, UX scores of more than 66,000, memory performance 12,000. And the overall performance of Kirin 980 is about 350,000 Points. According to Geekbench platform data, Apple A12 Bionic single core score of 4763, multi-core score of 11167 points respectively, Kirin 980 Single-core run 3390 points, multi-core score of 10318 Points.
It is not difficult to see, although the Huawei Kylin 980 chip is already in the first echelon of the Android camp, but Apple A12 Bionic in Single-core performance, multi-core performance and many other aspects are far more than Kirin 980, the strongest mobile phone chip deserved. however, foreign media Anandtec published different statements, they believe that Apple's official propaganda A12 performance improvement data conservative, The Chip's strength is actually stronger. Because in the Spec2006int test, the A12 bionic single-threaded performance is even better than the Skylake processor, that is, the processing power of the Apple A12 Bionic chip has reached or exceeded the capabilities of the desktop Processor.
In addition, AnandTech said that the A12 chip has made a major transformation of the neural engine, with the redesigned system cache having ' the biggest change since the introduction of A7 ', a significant improvement in CPU cores and memory compression on the gpu, all of which bring impressive performance improvements. AnandTech said the gap between A12 and the previous generation of A11 and Desktop-level product CPUs was ' quite astonishing ', and they also described how Apple could improve the performance of older devices through software tweaks. With the iphone 6s A9 as an example, the CPU has a maximum frequency of 435ms, but iOS 12 is reduced to 80ms, greatly improving the performance of interactive WORKLOADS. In addition, according to the SPECint2006 benchmark data, A12 's performance on previous generation devices averaged 24% better than A11.
The unit energy efficiency ratio (that is, the calculation vs. power Consumption) increased by 12%, but as the cache increased, there was no increase in consumption, the average power consumption of the A11 was about 3.36W, and the average power consumption of A12 was 3.64W. In fact, Apple wants to build independent research and development of the computer chip is not a secret, as early as a few years ago on the internet to be known. And Apple has always liked to control all of its products, a series of mobile phone chips was born to get rid of the restrictions of other manufacturers, the autonomy firmly in their own hands. The same is true of Apple Mac computers, which have now slipped to the third product line, but their sales and influence remain to be reckoned With.
