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HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 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 A13 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)
Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 960
278916
Apple A13 Bionic +219%
891274
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 960
265
Apple A13 Bionic +137%
629

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
2360 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
4 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
16 nm
Process
7 nm
4
Transistor count
8.5
5 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
1037 MHz
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
8
Execution units
4
16
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.2655 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.1
11.3
DirectX version
12.1

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

AI

-
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
5 TOPS

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016
Announced
Sep 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
Hi3660
Model number
-
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