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HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 19 %

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 28 %

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

403

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

1,393

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

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

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

381

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

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

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

1,521

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

ARM Mali-G71 MP8

245

Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)

1,713

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	HiSilicon Kirin 960	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Family	HiSilicon Kirin (29)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	HiSilicon Kirin 960 (2)	Apple A15 (2)
Architecture	Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53	A15
Technology	16 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor		Apple A14 Bionic
Successor		Apple A16 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	HiSilicon Kirin 960	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Cortex-A73 2.40 GHz	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Cortex-A53 1.80 GHz	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache		16.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB	32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	HiSilicon Kirin 960	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
GPU name	ARM Mali-G71 MP8	Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency	0.90 GHz	1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	8 / 256	20 / 640
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	6 GB
Technology	16 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q2/2016	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	HiSilicon Kirin 960	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	HiSilicon Kirin 960	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4-1600 (12.8 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	HiSilicon Kirin 960	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
TDP	5 W	10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	HiSilicon Kirin 960	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	Android	iOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q4/2016	Q3/2021
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of HiSilicon Kirin 960 is 3.5 stars (10 ratings), while Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) has received 4.2 stars (195 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

HiSilicon Kirin 960
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

★★★★★