Apple A17 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 655

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Apple A17 Pro HiSilicon Kirin 655

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2120MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 6 years and 9 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +3666%

2147

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

Apple A17 Pro

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 655

CPU

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

3780 MHz

Frequency

2120 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

-

3 nm

Process

16 nm

19

Transistor count

4

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

4

5.3

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Dec 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1V02

Model number

-

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