Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 970
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Frequency
2490 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
128 KB
512 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
7 nm
10 nm
Transistor count
6.9
5.5
TDP
6 W
9 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
-
0
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Mali-G72 MP12
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
768 MHz
Execution units
4
12
Shading units
64
18
Vulkan version
1.1
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
29.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Yes
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
3120 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
5
Bluetooth
5.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
355,946
Geekbench 6
1,301
386
Geekbench 6
2,843
1,377
FP32 (float)
576
331