Apple M5 (iPad) vs HiSilicon Kirin 970
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Frequency
4600 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
320 KB
512 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
10 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
5.5
TDP
—
9 W
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
3120 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, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Yes
Max camera resolution
—
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Download speed
—
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
—
Up to 150 Mbps
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Sep 2017
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
—
Hi3670
Graphics
GPU name
—
Mali-G72 MP12
GPU frequency
—
768 MHz
Execution units
—
12
Shading units
—
18
Vulkan version
—
1.3
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
12
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
355,946
Geekbench 6
4,175
386
Geekbench 6
15,577
1,377
FP32 (float)
—
331
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.