Apple M3 iPad vs HiSilicon Kirin 970
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Frequency
4050 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.6-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
256 KB
512 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
10 nm
Transistor count
25
5.5
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
—
0
TDP
—
9 W
Graphics
GPU name
Apple M3 GPU
Mali-G72 MP12
GPU frequency
1520 MHz
768 MHz
Shading units
144
18
Execution units
—
12
Vulkan version
—
1.3
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
102.4 Gb/s
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
—
Theoretical Performance
18 TOPS
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
3120 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Yes
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
5.3
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
4G support
—
LTE Cat. 18
Info
Announced
Oct 2023
Sep 2017
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
—
Hi3670
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,143,122
355,946
Geekbench 6
3,037
386
Geekbench 6
11,776
1,377
FP32 (float)
3,502
331
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.