HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple M3 iPad
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Frequency
2360 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache
64 KB
256 KB
L2 cache
0
16 MB
Process
16 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4
25
TDP
5 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G71 MP8
Apple M3 GPU
GPU frequency
1037 MHz
1520 MHz
Execution units
8
-
Shading units
16
144
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11.3
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
28.8 Gbit/s
102.4 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
No
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
2x 16MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
-
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
4.2
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced
Oct 2016
Oct 2023
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
Hi3660
-
AI
NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
18 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
278,916
2,143,122
Geekbench 6
408
3,037
Geekbench 6
1,385
11,776
FP32 (float)
265
3,502