HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Apple A11 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A11 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2360MHz)

Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Apple A11 Bionic +15%

409550

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Apple A11 Bionic +184%

1097

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

Apple A11 Bionic +71%

2357

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Apple A11 Bionic +23%

409

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Apple A11 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral

2360 MHz

Frequency

2390 MHz

8

Cores

6

2 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

10 nm

5.5

Transistor count

4.3

9 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Apple A11 GPU

768 MHz

GPU frequency

1066 MHz

12

Execution units

3

18

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4093 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.1

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M10

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M10

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2436 x 1125

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

APL1W72

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

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