HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Apple A11 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 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

Apple A11 Bionic Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Apple A11 Bionic +293%

409550

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Apple A11 Bionic +410%

1097

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Apple A11 Bionic +190%

2357

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Apple A11 Bionic +617%

409

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Apple A11 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2390 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

16 nm

Process

10 nm

4

Transistor count

4.3

-

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

AI

No

NPU

Apple M10

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

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Sep 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

APL1W72

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