HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A12 Bionic
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Frequency
2360 MHz
2490 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.3-A
L1 cache
64 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
16 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
4
6.9
TDP
5 W
6 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G71 MP8
Apple A12 GPU
GPU frequency
1037 MHz
1125 MHz
Execution units
8
4
Shading units
16
64
Vulkan version
1.3
1.1
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
11.3
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
28.8 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
No
Neural Engine
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
2688 x 1242
Max camera resolution
2x 16MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
5
Bluetooth
4.2
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Oct 2016
Sep 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
Hi3660
APL1W81
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
278,916
643,548
Geekbench 6
408
1,301
Geekbench 6
1,385
2,843
FP32 (float)
265
576
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.