Mobile processor comparison

Apple A11 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 710A

Compare available catalogue specifications. The page highlights factual differences without declaring an overall winner.

Compared fields 42
Different values 32
Quick factual highlights
Apple A11 Bionic
  • Higher maximum CPU clock
  • Smaller manufacturing process
HiSilicon Kirin 710A
  • More CPU cores
Side-by-side specifications

Detailed comparison

CPU

SpecificationApple A11 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 710A
Architecture 2x 2.39 GHz - Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz - Mistral 4x 2 GHz - Cortex-A734x 1.7 GHz - Cortex-A53
CPU cores 6 8
Clock speed 2390 MHz 2000 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
Process technology 10 nanometers 14 nanometers
Transistors 4.3 billion Not available
TDP 8 W 5 W

Cache and memory

SpecificationApple A11 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 710A
L1 cache 64 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 512 KB
Memory type LPDDR4 LPDDR4
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 1866 MHz
Memory bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Maximum bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s Not available
Maximum memory 3 GB 8 GB

Graphics and AI

SpecificationApple A11 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 710A
GPU Apple GPU Mali-G51 MP4
GPU architecture Not available Bifrost
GPU clock Not available 1000 MHz
Execution units 3 4
Shaders Not available 64
FLOPS 325 Gigaflops 83.2 Gigaflops
Vulkan 1.0 1.0
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
DirectX 12 12
Neural processor / NPU Neural Engine No

Display and media

SpecificationApple A11 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 710A
Maximum display resolution 2436 x 1125 2340 x 1080
Maximum camera resolution 2x 12MP 1x 40MP, 2x 24MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

SpecificationApple A11 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 710A
4G LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 12
5G No No
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 4
Bluetooth 5.0 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

General

SpecificationApple A11 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 710A
Release September 2017 June 2020
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number APL1W72 Not available
Storage support NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Devices in database Not available 1
Real devices

Phones using these processors

Examples found in the existing device catalogue.

Apple A11 Bionic

4G
Apple iPhone X
Apple

Apple iPhone X

3.5
Smartphone
Display
OLED 16.7M colors 1125 × 2436 pixels (5.80 in…
RAM
3 GB
Storage
64 GB, 256 GB
Battery
Li-Ion 2716 mAh
4G
Apple iPhone 8 Plus
Apple

Apple iPhone 8 Plus

3.9
Smartphone
Display
IPS TFT 16M colors 1080 × 1920 pixels (5.50 i…
RAM
3 GB
Storage
64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB
Battery
Li-Ion 2675 mAh
4G
Apple iPhone 8
Apple

Apple iPhone 8

3.5
Smartphone
Display
IPS TFT 16.7M colors 750 × 1334 pixels (4.70…
RAM
2 GB
Storage
64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB
Battery
Li-Ion 1821 mAh

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

4G
Huawei Nova Y73
Huawei

Huawei Nova Y73

3.2
Smartphone
Display
IPS TFT 16.7M colors, 90 Hz, 720 × 1604 pixel…
RAM
8 GB
Storage
128 GB, 256 GB
Battery
Si-Car 6620 mAh
4G
Huawei Enjoy 70
Huawei

Huawei Enjoy 70

3.2
Smartphone
Display
IPS TFT 16.7M colors 720 × 1600 pixels (6.75…
RAM
6 GB, 8 GB
Storage
128 GB, 256 GB
Battery
Li-Ion 6000 mAh