Apple A9 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Apple A9 HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . 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 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1850MHz)

Released 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +108%

623

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +8%

1040

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +116%

249

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Apple A9

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

-

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 16 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, UFS 2.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

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

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

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

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

-

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