Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 710A

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2000MHz HiSilicon Kirin 710A . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.128 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 710A Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +174%

643548

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

234102

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +305%

1301

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

321

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +150%

2843

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

1135

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +350%

576

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

128

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2490 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

512 KB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

14 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G51 MP4

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

4

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

16

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.128 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2340 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 40MP, 2x 24MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Jun 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

-

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