Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 970
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Frequency
3230 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
256 KB
512 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
5 nm
10 nm
Transistor count
15
5.5
TDP
6 W
9 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
-
0
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A15 GPU
Mali-G72 MP12
GPU frequency
1338 MHz
768 MHz
Execution units
5
12
Shading units
128
18
Vulkan version
-
1.3
OpenCL version
-
2.0
DirectX version
-
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
2732 x 2048
3120 x 1440
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Max camera resolution
-
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
5.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,290,037
355,946
Geekbench 6
2,333
386
Geekbench 6
5,741
1,377
FP32 (float)
1,712
331