Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 955
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 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 A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)
Released 2 years and 5 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 955 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2490MHz)
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+335%
1301
HiSilicon Kirin 955
299
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+173%
2843
HiSilicon Kirin 955
1040
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+400%
576
HiSilicon Kirin 955
115
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
2490 MHz
Frequency
2500 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
16 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-T880 MP4
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
4
Execution units
4
64
Shading units
16
4
Max size
4
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.1152 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
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)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
2688 x 1242
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, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
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
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Apr 2016
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
-
