Apple M5 (iPad) vs HiSilicon Kirin 820

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple M5 (iPad) Apple

SOC HiSilicon Kirin 820

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A763x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Frequency

4600 MHz

2360 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.2-A

L1 cache

320 KB

—

L2 cache

16 MB

—

Process

3 nm

7 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

—

TDP

—

5 W

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR4X

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2133 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

153 Gb/s

31.78 Gbit/s

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 2.1

Max display resolution

2752 x 2064

3360 x 1440

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Audio codecs

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Neural processor (NPU)

—

Yes

Max camera resolution

—

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.1

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Download speed

—

Up to 4600 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 200 Mbps

Info

Announced

Oct 2025

Mar 2020

Class

Flagship

Mid range

Graphics

GPU name

—

Mali-G57 MP6

GPU frequency

—

850 MHz

Execution units

—

Shading units

—

Vulkan version

—

1.3

OpenCL version

—

2.0

DirectX version

—

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,155,649

498,005

Geekbench 6

4,175

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Geekbench 6

15,577

—

FP32 (float)

—

652

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.