HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs Apple A9
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
HiSilicon Kirin 655 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2120MHz vs 1850MHz)
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Apple A9 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 655
189
Apple A9
+229%
623
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 655
694
Apple A9
+37%
957
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 655
57
Apple A9
+336%
249
CPU
4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
2120 MHz
Frequency
1850 MHz
8
Cores
2
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
-
L2 cache
3 MB
-
L3 cache
0
16 nm
Process
14 nm
4
Transistor count
2
5 W
TDP
5 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
900 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
2
Execution units
6
16
Shading units
32
4
Max size
4
0.0576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.1
1.2
OpenCL version
1.2
11
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR4
933 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
-
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
NVMe
1920 x 1200
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
No
5G support
No
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
4
Wi-Fi
5
4.1
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Dec 2016
Announced
Sep 2015
Mid range
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
APL1022
