Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 970
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)
Released 1 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+80%
643548
HiSilicon Kirin 970
355946
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+237%
1301
HiSilicon Kirin 970
386
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+106%
2843
HiSilicon Kirin 970
1377
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+74%
576
HiSilicon Kirin 970
331
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
2490 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
2 MB
-
L3 cache
0
7 nm
Process
10 nm
6.9
Transistor count
5.5
6 W
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G72 MP12
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
768 MHz
4
Execution units
12
64
Shading units
18
4
Max size
8
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3318 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Sep 2017
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
Hi3670
