Apple A14 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 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 A14 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6543 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 5 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A14 Bionic +597%

2087

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A14 Bionic +363%

4820

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Apple A14 Bionic +468%

654

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Apple A14 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm

Architecture

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

3100 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

16 nm

11.8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A14 GPU

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

4

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

16

6

Max size

4

0.6543 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

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

2732 x 2048

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

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 2500 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 2020

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W01

Model number

-

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