Apple A9 vs HiSilicon Kirin 655

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Apple A9 HiSilicon Kirin 655

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2120MHz vs 1850MHz)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +229%

623

HiSilicon Kirin 655

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +37%

957

HiSilicon Kirin 655

694

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +336%

249

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 655

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2120 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

4

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

650 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Apple M9

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Dec 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

-

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