A16 Bionic chip Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Kirin 970 SoCs by Apple and Hisilicon respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

• A16 Bionic chip has 46.61% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3460 vs 2360 MHz).

• A16 Bionic chip has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1398 vs 850 MHz).

• A16 Bionic chip has 242.98% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (6400 vs 1866 MHz).

• A16 Bionic chip has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).

• A16 Bionic chip has 228.24% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (965 K vs 294 K).

• A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.

• A16 Bionic chip Support 71.81% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 MHz).

Modem	-	-
4G support	LTE Cat. 24	LTE Cat. 18
5G support	Yes	No
Peak Download speed	Up to 7500 Mbps	-
Peak Upload speed	Up to 3500 Mbps	-
Wi-Fi	6	5
Bluetooth	5.3	4.2
Navigation	GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS	GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo