HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs Apple M2 iPad
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard
Frequency
2860 MHz
3490 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache
512 KB
192 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
7 nm
5 nm
Transistor count
8
20
TDP
6 W
15 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP16
Apple M2 GPU
GPU frequency
600 MHz
1398 MHz
Execution units
16
8
Shading units
36
128
Vulkan version
1.3
—
OpenCL version
2.0
—
DirectX version
12
—
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
6400 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
102.4 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Da Vinci
Yes
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3360 x 1440
2732 x 2048
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VC-1
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 19
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced
Oct 2019
Jun 2022
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
—
APL1109
AI
NPU
—
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
—
15.8 TOPS
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
695,853
2,188,966
Geekbench 6
990
2,623
Geekbench 6
3,179
9,803
FP32 (float)
691
2,918
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.