Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 950

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 . 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 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 10 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +527%

2333

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +465%

5741

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +1388%

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Apple A15 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

3230 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

16 nm

15

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

5

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

16

6

Max size

4

1.7126 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 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

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

2560 x 1600

-

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

Hi3650

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