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Apple A13 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 960
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A13 Bionic
100 %
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 960
24 %
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A13 Bionic
100 %
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 960
39 %
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A13 Bionic
100 %
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 960
29 %
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A13 Bionic
100 %
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 960
44 %
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A13 Bionic
100 %
Apple A13
HiSilicon Kirin 960
35 %
ARM Mali-G71 MP8
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Apple A13 Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 960 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | HiSilicon Kirin (29) |
| CPU group | Apple A13 (1) | HiSilicon Kirin 960 (2) |
| Architecture | A13 (Lightning / Thunder) | Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 |
| Technology | 7 nm | 16 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Smartphone / Tablet |
| Socket | ||
| Predecessor | Apple A12 Bionic | |
| Successor | Apple A14 Bionic |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Apple A13 Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 960 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 6 / 6 | 8 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Lightning 2.65 GHz |
4x Cortex-A73 2.40 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Thunder 1.80 GHz |
4x Cortex-A53 1.80 GHz |
| L2-Cache | 8.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 4.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Apple A13 Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 960 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A13 | ARM Mali-G71 MP8 |
| GPU frequency | 1.35 GHz | 0.90 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 16 / 256 | 8 / 256 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 2 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 4 GB | 2 GB |
| Technology | 7 nm | 16 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2019 | Q2/2016 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Apple A13 Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 960 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Apple A13 Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 960 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) | LPDDR4-1600 (12.8 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory channels | 1 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | ||
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Apple A13 Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 960 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 6 W | 5 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. |
Technical details
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Wischen
|
Apple A13 Bionic | HiSilicon Kirin 960 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Chiplet |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | iOS | Android |
| Instruction set | Armv8-A (64 bit) | Armv8-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | ||
| Release date | Q3/2019 | Q4/2016 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
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Your rating
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