Apple A16 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 985
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 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 A16 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.652 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 17GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2580MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 2 years and 5 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
+174%
1789
HiSilicon Kirin 985
652
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55
3460 MHz
Frequency
2580 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
16 MB
L2 cache
-
4 nm
Process
7 nm
16
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G77 MP8
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
700 MHz
5
Execution units
8
128
Shading units
128
6
Max size
12
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.652 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
17 Gbit/s
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
是
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
1x 48MP
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 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 177 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.3
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
Apr 2020
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W10
Model number
Hi6290
