Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 985

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 . 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 0.652 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2580MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +162%

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 985

652

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 985

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

3230 MHz

Frequency

2580 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

7 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP8

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

5

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

128

6

Max size

12

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.652 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

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

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

是

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

是

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3120 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, VP8, 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. 22

Yes

5G support

是

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1277 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 177 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Apr 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

Hi6290

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