HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Apple M5 (iPad)
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
Frequency
2360 MHz
4600 MHz
Cores
8
10
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
64 KB
320 KB
L2 cache
0
16 MB
Process
16 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4
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TDP
5 W
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Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G71 MP8
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GPU frequency
1037 MHz
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Execution units
8
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Shading units
16
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Vulkan version
1.3
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OpenCL version
2.0
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DirectX version
11.3
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
4800 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
28.8 Gbit/s
153 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
No
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Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
2752 x 2064
Max camera resolution
2x 16MP
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Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
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Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
4.2
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced
Oct 2016
Oct 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
Hi3660
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AI
NPU
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Apple Neural Engine
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
278,916
3,155,649
Geekbench 6
408
4,175
Geekbench 6
1,385
15,577
FP32 (float)
265
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.