Apple A13 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 655
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic 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 A13 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2120MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)
Released 2 years and 9 months late
HiSilicon Kirin 655 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
+1003%
629
HiSilicon Kirin 655
57
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2650 MHz
Frequency
2120 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
16 nm
8.5
Transistor count
4
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
4
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
16
4
Max size
4
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0576 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.1
OpenCL version
1.2
12.1
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
-
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
-
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
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
No
5G support
No
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
4
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
Dec 2016
Flagship
Class
Mid range
