HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 820 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.6528 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 31.78GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 820

498005

Apple A15 Bionic +159%

1290037

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 820

652

Apple A15 Bionic +162%

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 820

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Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

2360 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

12 MB

7 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

5 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP6

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

850 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

6

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

128

12

Max size

6

0.6528 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

31.78 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

Sep 2021

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W07

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