Apple A13 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 960
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A13 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)
Released 2 years and 11 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
+219%
891274
HiSilicon Kirin 960
278916
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
+137%
629
HiSilicon Kirin 960
265
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
2650 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
4 MB
7 nm
Process
16 nm
8.5
Transistor count
4
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G71 MP8
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
1037 MHz
4
Execution units
8
64
Shading units
16
4
Max size
4
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2655 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
11.3
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
28.8 Gbit/s
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
-
Max camera resolution
2x 16MP
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
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
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 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
Oct 2016
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
Hi3660
