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HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A11 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)
Apple A11 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)
Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 960
278916
Apple A11 Bionic +46%
409550
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 960
408
Apple A11 Bionic +168%
1097
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 960
1385
Apple A11 Bionic +70%
2357
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 960
265
Apple A11 Bionic +54%
409

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
2360 MHz
Frequency
2390 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
4 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
16 nm
Process
10 nm
4
Transistor count
4.3
5 W
TDP
8 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8
GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
1037 MHz
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
8
Execution units
3
16
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.2655 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.4093 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
2.1
11.3
DirectX version
12

Memory

LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR4X
1600 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
28.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Storage type
NVMe
2560 x 1600
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
2x 16MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016
Announced
Sep 2017
Flagship
Class
Flagship
Hi3660
Model number
APL1W72
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