HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A14 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 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 A14 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6543 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Apple A14 Bionic +280%

1061696

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Apple A14 Bionic +411%

2087

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Apple A14 Bionic +248%

4820

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Apple A14 Bionic +146%

654

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm

2360 MHz

Frequency

3100 MHz

8

Cores

6

4 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

11.8

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Apple A14 GPU

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

1278 MHz

8

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

6

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6543 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11.3

DirectX version

-

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

No

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Sep 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

APL1W01

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