Apple A13 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 5 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A13 Bionic +486%

1755

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A13 Bionic +300%

4168

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Apple A13 Bionic +446%

629

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Apple A13 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2650 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

16 nm

8.5

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A13 GPU

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1230 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

4

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.6298 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.1

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 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, UFS 2.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

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