Apple A15 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 659
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)
Released 4 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+1140%
1290037
HiSilicon Kirin 659
103952
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+985%
2333
HiSilicon Kirin 659
215
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+608%
5741
HiSilicon Kirin 659
810
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+2903%
1712
HiSilicon Kirin 659
57
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
3230 MHz
Frequency
2360 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
12 MB
L2 cache
-
5 nm
Process
16 nm
15
Transistor count
4
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
5
Execution units
2
128
Shading units
16
6
Max size
4
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0576 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
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
2732 x 2048
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, 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
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 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
4
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Jan 2017
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W07
Model number
Hi6250
