Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 655

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2120MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +588%

1301

HiSilicon Kirin 655

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +309%

2843

HiSilicon Kirin 655

694

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +910%

576

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

Apple A12 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 655

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2490 MHz

Frequency

2120 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

16 nm

6.9

Transistor count

4

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

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

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2688 x 1242

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, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Dec 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

-

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