Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . 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 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +130%

643548

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +218%

1301

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +105%

2843

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +117%

576

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

2490 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

7 nm

Process

16 nm

6.9

Transistor count

4

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

4

Execution units

8

64

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

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

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

Hi3660

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