HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Apple A11 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 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

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2390MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Apple A11 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Apple A11 Bionic +194%

1097

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

Apple A11 Bionic +131%

2357

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Apple A11 Bionic +255%

409

HiSilicon Kirin 950

VS

Apple A11 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2400 MHz

Frequency

2390 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

16 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

4.3

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Apple A11 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1066 MHz

4

Execution units

3

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4093 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.1

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Apple M10

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M10

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2436 x 1125

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

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

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

APL1W72

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