Comparison of Apple A7 and HiSilicon Kirin 620

Attribute	Apple A7 ×	HiSilicon Kirin 620 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	HiSilicon
Series	Apple A series	HiSilicon Kirin
Model	Apple A7	HiSilicon Kirin 620
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	4
Frequency (GHz)	1.3	1.2
CPU Threads	2	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Cyclone	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	1.4	1.2
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	1.4	-
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.2
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Internal Graphics
GPU name	PowerVR G6430	ARM Mali-450 MP4
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.45	0.53
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	0.45	0.53
Generation	-	0
DirectX Version	10	0
Execution units	4	4
Shader	64	64
Max. displays	1	1
GPU Release date (year)	2013	2012
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR3-1333	LPDDR3
Max. Memory (GB)	1	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2015
Technology (Nm)	28	28
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	-
L2-Cache (MB)	1	-
Architecture	A7	Cortex-A53
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	115	32
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	278	102
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	528	505