HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Apple A10 Fusion

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2340MHz)

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Apple A10 Fusion +193%

879

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

Apple A10 Fusion +28%

1332

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Apple A10 Fusion +116%

249

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Apple A10 Fusion

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr

2500 MHz

Frequency

2340 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

3.3

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

900 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

-

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Apple M10

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M10

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

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, VC-1, Motion JPEG

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9645M

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 100 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Sep 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W24

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