Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Which processor is better? We compared Apple A15 Bionic with HiSilicon Kirin 970. Compare, analyze the specifications. Find out their scores in popular benchmarks (AnTuTu 10, GeekBench 6 Single-Core, GeekBench 6 Multi-Core) and who is the winner?

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture 2x 3.24 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
Number of cores 6 8
Instruction Set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8-A
Lithography 5 nm 10 nm
Number of transistors 15000 million 5500 million
TDP 6 Watt 9 Watt
Neural Processing NPU HiSilicon NPU

Memory (RAM)

Max amount up to 6 GB up to 8 GB
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
Memory-bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification NVMe UFS 2.1

Graphics

GPU name Apple gen. 5 Mali-G72 MP12
GPU Architecture Apple GPU Bifrost
GPU frequency 1338 MHz 750 MHz
Execution units 5 12
Shaders 640 192
DirectX 12
OpenCL API 2.0
Vulkan API 1.0

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution 2732x2048 2340x1080
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max Video Capture 4K@60fps 4K@30fps
Video codec support H.264 (AVC)
H.265 (HEVC)
VP8
VP9
H.264 (AVC)
H.265 (HEVC)
VP8
VP9

Wireless

4G network Yes Yes
5G network Yes Yes
Peak Download Speed 7.5 Gbps 1.2 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed 3 Gbps 0.15 Gbps
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) 5 (802.11ac)
Bluetooth 5.0 4.2
Satellite navigation BeiDou
GPS
Galileo
GLONASS
BeiDou
GPS
Galileo
GLONASS

Supplemental Information

Launch Date 2021 Quarter 3 2017 September
Partnumber APL1W07 Hi3670
Vertical Segment Mobiles Mobiles
Positioning Flagship Flagship

AnTuTu 10

Total Score
A15 Bionic
1279854
Kirin 970
318577

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score
A15 Bionic
2316
Kirin 970
389

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score
A15 Bionic
5719
Kirin 970
1502