HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Apple A17 Pro
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
2x 3.78 GHz – Everest4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
2360 MHz
3780 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache
512 KB
256 KB
L2 cache
0
16 MB
L3 cache
0
-
Process
10 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
5.5
19
TDP
9 W
8 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G72 MP12
Apple A17 GPU
GPU frequency
768 MHz
1398 MHz
Execution units
12
6
Shading units
18
128
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
51.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
Neural Engine
Storage type
UFS 2.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
2796 x 1290
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
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, VC-1
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1200 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, NAVIC
Info
AI
NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
35 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
355,946
1,544,984
Geekbench 6
386
2,953
Geekbench 6
1,377
7,441
FP32 (float)
331
2,147