Apple A18 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 659
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A18 Pro 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A18 Pro
+1567%
1733863
HiSilicon Kirin 659
103952
FP32 (float)
Apple A18 Pro
+3807%
2.227 TFLOPS
HiSilicon Kirin 659
0.057 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
4040 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
-
4 MB
L2 cache
-
16 MB
L3 cache
-
3 nm
Process
16 nm
-
Transistor count
4
10 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A18 Pro GPU
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
1450 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
6
Execution units
2
128
Shading units
16
8
Max size
4
2.2272 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0576 TFLOPS
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Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR3
7500 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
60 GB/s
Max bandwidth
-
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
35 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
-
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
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8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Snapdragon X75
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 10000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
4
5.3
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Sep 2024
Announced
Jan 2017
Flagship
Class
Mid range
-
Model number
Hi6250
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