HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Apple A13 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Apple A13 Bionic +680%

811843

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Apple A13 Bionic +716%

1755

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Apple A13 Bionic +414%

4168

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Apple A13 Bionic +1003%

629

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

2360 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

8.5

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

2

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.1

11

DirectX version

12.1

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

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

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, 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. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Sep 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

-

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