HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Apple A18 Pro

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Apple A18 Pro +1764%

1938352

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Apple A18 Pro +3807%

2227

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2360 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

2

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5T

933 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

78.8 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

-

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Sep 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

-

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