HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Apple A14 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

Apple A14 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A14 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6543 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Apple A14 Bionic +921%

1061696

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Apple A14 Bionic +870%

2087

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Apple A14 Bionic +495%

4820

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Apple A14 Bionic +1047%

654

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm

2360 MHz

Frequency

3100 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

-

L2 cache

8 MB

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

11.8

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Apple A14 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1278 MHz

2

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

6

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6543 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, 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

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Sep 2020

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

APL1W01

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