HiSilicon Kirin 658 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 658

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2350MHz HiSilicon Kirin 658 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 658 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2350MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 658

206

Apple A15 Bionic +1032%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 658

729

Apple A15 Bionic +687%

5741

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 658

57

Apple A15 Bionic +2903%

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 658

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.35 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

2350 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

-

L2 cache

12 MB

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

15

5 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

2

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

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)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

-

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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Mar 2017

Announced

Sep 2021

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W07

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