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Apple A12Z Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 970
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12Z Bionic
100 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 970
31 %
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12Z Bionic
100 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 970
31 %
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A12Z Bionic
100 %
Apple A12Z
HiSilicon Kirin 970
29 %
ARM Mali-G72 MP12
More benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries
690 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries
665 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries
90 entries
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries
118 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12Z Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 970 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | HiSilicon Kirin (29) |
| CPU group | Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3) | HiSilicon Kirin 970 (1) |
| Architecture | A12 | Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 |
| Technology | 7 nm | 10 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Smartphone / Tablet |
| Socket | ||
| Predecessor | Apple A10X Fusion | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
|
Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 970 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 8 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Vortex 2.49 GHz |
4x Cortex-A73 2.40 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Tempest 1.59 GHz |
4x Cortex-A53 1.84 GHz |
| L2-Cache | 8.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 2.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12Z Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 970 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A12Z | ARM Mali-G72 MP12 |
| GPU frequency | 1.13 GHz | 0.75 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 32 / 512 | 12 / 192 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 1 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 6 GB | 2 GB |
| Technology | 7 nm | 16 nm |
| Release date | Q1/2020 | Q3/2017 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
|
Apple A12Z Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 970 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 970 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) | LPDDR4X-2133 |
| Max. Memory | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 4 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | ||
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
|
Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 970 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 15 W | 9 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 970 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Chiplet |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | iOS | Android |
| Instruction set | Armv8-A (64 bit) | Armv8-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | ||
| Release date | Q1/2020 | Q3/2017 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
User Reviews
Your rating
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