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Apple A16 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 19 %
HiSilicon Kirin 970
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 27 %
HiSilicon Kirin 970
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
1,890
HiSilicon Kirin 970
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
349
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
5,465
HiSilicon Kirin 970
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
1,455
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)
1,789
HiSilicon Kirin 970
ARM Mali-G72 MP12
330

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At a glance

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 970
FamilyApple A series (27)HiSilicon Kirin (29)
CPU groupApple A16 (2)HiSilicon Kirin 970 (1)
ArchitectureA16Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
Technology4 nm10 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
SuccessorApple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 970
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Everest
3.46 GHz
4x Cortex-A73
2.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Sawtooth
2.02 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
1.84 GHz
L2-Cache20.00 MB
L3-Cache24.00 MB2.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 970
GPU nameApple A16 (5 GPU Cores)ARM Mali-G72 MP12
GPU frequency0.40 - 1.34 GHz0.75 GHz
CUs / Shader20 / 64012 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays31
Max. GPU Memory6 GB2 GB
Technology4 nm16 nm
Release dateQ3/2022Q3/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 970
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 970
MemoryLPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-2133
Max. Memory6 GB8 GB
Memory channels14
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 970
TDP10 W9 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 970
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8.6-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2022Q3/2017
Release price
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Your rating

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Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 970
HiSilicon Kirin 970
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

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