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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
- 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).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
CPU | 247110 | 77046 |
GPU | 408357 | 90560 |
Memory | 162944 | 66398 |
UX | 146541 | 59977 |
Total score | 964952 | 293981 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
Image compression | 243.5 Mpixels/s | 76.9 Mpixels/s |
Face detection | 46.4 images/s | 14 images/s |
Speech recognition | 141.8 words/s | 24.5 words/s |
Machine learning | 117.1 images/s | 21.8 images/s |
Camera shooting | 54.3 images/s | 11.4 images/s |
HTML 5 | 5.9 Mnodes/s | 1.46 Mnodes/s |
SQLite | 1430 Mnodes/s | 417.7 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
76%
Apple A168%
Kirin 970Score: 9862
Stability | 79% | 80% |
Graphics test | 59 FPS | 6 FPS |
Score | 9862 | 1050 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Apple A16 Bionic and Hisilicon Kirin 970Display
Max On-Device Display | - | 4K @ 60 Hz |
Max On-Display Resolution | - | 3840 x 2160 |
Max External Display | - | - |
HDR | - | HDR, HDR-10 |
Color Depth | - | - |
Color Gamut | - | - |
CPU
92%
Apple A1662%
Kirin 970
Processor Speed (Frequency)
Architecture |
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth |
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53 |
Cores | 6 | 8 |
Base Frequency | 2020 MHz | 1840 MHz |
Turbo Frequency | 3460 MHz | 2360 MHz |
Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8-A |
L1 cache | 256 KB | - |
L2 cache | 16 MB | 0.5 MB |
L3 cache | - | 2 MB |
Process | 4 nm | 10 nm |
Transistor count | 16 Billion | 5.5 Billion |
TDP | 8 W | 9 W |
Graphics
GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Mali G72 MP12 |
Architecture | Apple GPU | Bifrost |
GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 850 MHz |
Execution units | 6 | 12 |
Shading units | 768 | 192 |
FLOPS | - | 347 Gigaflops |
Vulkan version | - | 1.0 |
OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
DirectX version | - | 12 |
Memory
Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 1866 MHz |
Bus | 4x16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 29.8 Gbit/s |
Max size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Dedicated NPU |
Storage type | NVMe | UFS 2.1 |
Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 3840 x 2160 |
Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP |
Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 |
Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
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 |
Info
Announced Date | September 2022 | September 2017 |
Class | Flagship | Flagship |
Model number | APL1W10 | Hi3670 |
Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Kirin 970 official site |