HiSilicon Kirin 658 vs Apple A9

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HiSilicon Kirin 658 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2350MHz HiSilicon Kirin 658 vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 658 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2350MHz vs 1850MHz)

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 658

206

Apple A9 +202%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 658

729

Apple A9 +31%

957

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 658

57

Apple A9 +336%

249

HiSilicon Kirin 658

VS

Apple A9

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2350 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

900 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2017

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

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