Kirin 960 vs A10 Fusion
We compared the 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 960 (Mali-G71 MP8) with the older 4-core Apple A10 Fusion (PowerVR GT7600) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 960
- Has 4 more cores
- Supports 93% higher memory bandwidth (28.8 against 14.9 GB/s)
- Higher GPU frequency (~60%)
Pros of Apple A10 Fusion
- Shows significantly better (up to 41%) AnTuTu 11 score β 516K vs 366K
- Performs 25% better in floating-point computations
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 11
| CPU | 134649 | 202669 |
| GPU | 37113 | 63274 |
| Memory | 87722 | 84317 |
| UX | 107031 | 166721 |
| Total score | 366515 | 516981 |
| Samples | Less than 3 | Less than 3 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Asset compression | 80.6 MB/sec | 57.7 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 50.3 pages/sec | 38.7 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 50.1 Mpixels/sec | 44.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | 11.8 images/sec | 14.2 images/sec |
| HDR | 36.7 Mpixels/sec | 56.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | 2.04 images/sec | 4.38 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 9.64 images/sec | 13.5 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 978.5 Mpixels/sec | 1.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Samples | Less than 3 | 4 tests |
Compute Score (GPU)
| Background blur | 5.65 images/sec | 11 images/sec |
| Face detection | 3.43 images/sec | 9.32 images/sec |
| Horizon detection | 0.15 Gpixels/sec | 0.13 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge detection | 0.12 Gpixels/sec | 0.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian blur | 0.1 Gpixels/sec | 0.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature matching | 0.03 Gpixels/sec | 0.04 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo matching | 10.7 Gpixels/sec | 10.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle physics | 410 FPS | 415.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | Metal |
| Samples | - | 2 tests |
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Score | - | 693 |
| Stability | - | 85% |
| Graphics test | - | 4 FPS |
Recent User Tests
HiSilicon Kirin 960
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| π 2023-11-29 (antonio chen) | GeekBench CPU | 403 / 1147 |
Apple A10 Fusion
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| π 2025-08-15 (hellz1) | GeekBench GPU | 4352 |
| π 2024-02-21 (Cap1bara_tech) | GeekBench CPU | 882 / 1484 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Kirin 960 and A10 FusionCPU
| Architecture | 4x 2.36 GHz β Cortex-A73 4x 1.84 GHz β Cortex-A53 |
2x 2.34 GHz β Hurricane 2x 1.05 GHz β Zephyr |
| Cores | 8 | 4 |
| Frequency | 2360 MHz | 2340 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 64 KB | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 MB |
| Process | 16 nanometers | 16 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 4 billion | 3.3 billion |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 5 W | 5 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G71 MP8 | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Architecture | Bifrost 1st gen | PowerVR Series7XT (Rogue) |
| GPU frequency | 1037 MHz | 650 MHz |
| Pipelines | 8 | 6 |
| Shading units | 12 | 32 |
| Total shaders | 96 | 192 |
| FLOPS | 199.1 Gigaflops | 249.6 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 1.2 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | No |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 1600 MHz | 1333 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 28.8 Gb/s | 14.9 Gb/s |
| Max size | 4 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2560 x 1600 | 2048 x 1536 |
| Max camera resolution | 2x 16MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | - H.264 - H.265 - VP8 - VP9 |
- H.264 - H.265 - VC-1 - Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
- AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Qualcomm MDM9645M |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 100 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | October 2016 | September 2016 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | Hi3660 | APL1W24 |
| Successor | - HiSilicon Kirin 9000S | - Apple A19 Pro |
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