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Apple A14 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A14 Bionic
Rank 2 - 22 %
HiSilicon Kirin 960
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A14 Bionic
Rank 2 - 33 %
HiSilicon Kirin 960
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
2,072
HiSilicon Kirin 960
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
403
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
4,689
HiSilicon Kirin 960
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
1,393
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
1,590
HiSilicon Kirin 960
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
381
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
4,247
HiSilicon Kirin 960
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
1,521
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A14 Bionic
Apple A14
749
HiSilicon Kirin 960
ARM Mali-G71 MP8
245

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 960
FamilyApple A series (27)HiSilicon Kirin (29)
CPU groupApple A14 (1)HiSilicon Kirin 960 (2)
ArchitectureA14 (Firestorm/Icestorm)Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
Technology5 nm16 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A13 Bionic
SuccessorApple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 960
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Firestorm
3.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A73
2.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Icestorm
1.82 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
1.80 GHz
L2-Cache12.00 MB
L3-Cache16.00 MB4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 960
GPU nameApple A14ARM Mali-G71 MP8
GPU frequency1.46 GHz0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 2568 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays32
Max. GPU Memory6 GB2 GB
Technology5 nm16 nm
Release dateQ3/2020Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 960
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 960
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4-1600 (12.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB6 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 960
TDP7.25 W5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 960
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2020Q4/2016
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A14 Bionic
Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 960
HiSilicon Kirin 960
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

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