Apple A9 vs HiSilicon Kirin 950

VS

Apple A9

HiSilicon Kirin 950

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 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 A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 1850MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +67%

623

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +6%

1016

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +116%

249

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 950

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

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

1850 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

650 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

6

Execution units

4

32

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

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

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

Hi3650

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