HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Apple A9

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HiSilicon Kirin 970 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +24%

355946

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Apple A9 +61%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +43%

1377

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +32%

331

Apple A9

249

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Apple A9

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2360 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

2 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

14 nm

5.5

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

768 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

12

Execution units

6

18

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

APL1022

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

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