Apple M5 (iPad) vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
4600 MHz
2860 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
320 KB
512 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
7 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Transistor count
—
8
TDP
—
6 W
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
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Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
3360 x 1440
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VC-1
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Da Vinci
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 19
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Download speed
—
Up to 1400 Mbps
Upload speed
—
Up to 200 Mbps
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Oct 2019
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Graphics
GPU name
—
Mali-G76 MP16
GPU frequency
—
600 MHz
Execution units
—
16
Shading units
—
36
Vulkan version
—
1.3
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
12
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
695,853
Geekbench 6
4,175
990
Geekbench 6
15,577
3,179
FP32 (float)
—
691
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.