HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
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
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 960
278916
Apple A12 Bionic
+130%
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 960
408
Apple A12 Bionic
+218%
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 960
1385
Apple A12 Bionic
+105%
2843
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 960
265
Apple A12 Bionic
+117%
576
CPU
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2360 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
4 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
16 nm
Process
7 nm
4
Transistor count
6.9
5 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-G71 MP8
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
1037 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
8
Execution units
4
16
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.2655 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
11.3
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR4X
1600 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
28.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Storage type
NVMe
2560 x 1600
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
2x 16MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
-
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Oct 2016
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
Hi3660
Model number
APL1W81
