Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 820

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

HiSilicon Kirin 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.6528 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 31.78GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 1 years and 6 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 820 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +159%

1290037

HiSilicon Kirin 820

498005

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +162%

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 820

652

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 820

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

3230 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

7 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP6

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

5

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

64

6

Max size

12

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6528 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

31.78 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

-

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Mar 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W07

Model number

-

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