HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Apple A15 Bionic

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

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Apple A15 Bionic +527%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

Apple A15 Bionic +465%

5741

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Apple A15 Bionic +1388%

1712

HiSilicon Kirin 950

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2400 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

-

L2 cache

12 MB

16 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

15

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

4

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11.2

DirectX version

-

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

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

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, VP8, VP9, 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. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

APL1W07

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