HiSilicon Kirin 650 vs Apple A18

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 650

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz HiSilicon Kirin 650 vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 650

57

Apple A18 +3038%

1789

HiSilicon Kirin 650

VS

Apple A18

CPU

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2000 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

-

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2016

Announced

Sep 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

-

HiSilicon Kirin 650

Official page

-

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