Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 970
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)
Released 4 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+262%
1290037
HiSilicon Kirin 970
355946
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+504%
2333
HiSilicon Kirin 970
386
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+316%
5741
HiSilicon Kirin 970
1377
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+417%
1712
HiSilicon Kirin 970
331
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
2 MB
-
L3 cache
0
5 nm
Process
10 nm
15
Transistor count
5.5
6 W
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G72 MP12
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
768 MHz
5
Execution units
12
128
Shading units
18
6
Max size
8
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3318 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
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
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
-
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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 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
Sep 2017
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
Hi3670
