Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 960
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)
Released 4 years and 11 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+362%
1290037
HiSilicon Kirin 960
278916
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+471%
2333
HiSilicon Kirin 960
408
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+314%
5741
HiSilicon Kirin 960
1385
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+546%
1712
HiSilicon Kirin 960
265
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
3230 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
12 MB
L2 cache
4 MB
5 nm
Process
16 nm
15
Transistor count
4
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G71 MP8
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1037 MHz
5
Execution units
8
128
Shading units
16
6
Max size
4
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2655 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
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
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2732 x 2048
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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Oct 2016
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
Hi3660
