Apple A18 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Apple A18 Pro

HiSilicon Kirin 659

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +1567%

1733863

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +3807%

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Apple A18 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

4040 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

4

10 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

-

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

4

5.3

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Jan 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

Hi6250

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