HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A17 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Apple A17 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro . 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 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Apple A17 Pro +453%

1544984

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Apple A17 Pro +710%

2147

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

2360 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

4 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

19

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

8

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11.3

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

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, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Sep 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

APL1V02

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