Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 659
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+519%
643548
HiSilicon Kirin 659
103952
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+505%
1301
HiSilicon Kirin 659
215
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+250%
2843
HiSilicon Kirin 659
810
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+910%
576
HiSilicon Kirin 659
57
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2490 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
16 nm
6.9
Transistor count
4
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
4
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
16
4
Max size
4
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0576 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
1.2
12
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
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, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
4
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Jan 2017
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W81
Model number
Hi6250
