HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs Apple A11 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 655

Apple A11 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs. 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Apple A11 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2120MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 655

189

Apple A11 Bionic +480%

1097

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 655

694

Apple A11 Bionic +239%

2357

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

Apple A11 Bionic +617%

409

HiSilicon Kirin 655

VS

Apple A11 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral

2120 MHz

Frequency

2390 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

8 MB

16 nm

Process

10 nm

4

Transistor count

4.3

5 W

TDP

8 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Apple A11 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1066 MHz

2

Execution units

3

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4093 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.1

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M10

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2436 x 1125

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2016

Announced

Sep 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W72

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