Apple A11 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 659
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic 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 A11 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)
Released 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
+293%
409550
HiSilicon Kirin 659
103952
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+410%
1097
HiSilicon Kirin 659
215
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+190%
2357
HiSilicon Kirin 659
810
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
+617%
409
HiSilicon Kirin 659
57
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2390 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
10 nm
Process
16 nm
4.3
Transistor count
4
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
3
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
16
4
Max size
4
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0576 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.0
2.1
OpenCL version
1.2
12
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
4
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Jan 2017
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W72
Model number
Hi6250
