Apple A16 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Apple A16 Bionic

HiSilicon Kirin 960

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 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 A16 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 11 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A16 Bionic +416%

1441069

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

FP32 (float)

Apple A16 Bionic +575%

1789

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Apple A16 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

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

3460 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

4 nm

Process

16 nm

16

Transistor count

4

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

5

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

16

6

Max size

4

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP

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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W10

Model number

Hi3660

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