Apple A11 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 955
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A11 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)
Released 1 years and 5 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 955 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2390MHz)
Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+266%
1097
HiSilicon Kirin 955
299
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+126%
2357
HiSilicon Kirin 955
1040
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
+255%
409
HiSilicon Kirin 955
115
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
2390 MHz
Frequency
2500 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
10 nm
Process
16 nm
4.3
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Mali-T880 MP4
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
3
Execution units
4
64
Shading units
16
4
Max size
4
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.1152 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.0
2.1
OpenCL version
1.2
12
DirectX version
11.2
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
-
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
1920 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Apr 2016
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W72
Model number
-
