HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Apple A16 Bionic

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 950

Apple A16 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 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 8W)

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Apple A16 Bionic +1455%

1789

HiSilicon Kirin 950

VS

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth

2400 MHz

Frequency

3460 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

-

L2 cache

16 MB

16 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

16

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Apple A16 GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

4

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11.2

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

-

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

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 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

APL1W10

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