HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Apple A13 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic . 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 2360MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 659
103952
Apple A13 Bionic
+757%
891274
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 659
57
Apple A13 Bionic
+1003%
629
CPU
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
2360 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
-
L2 cache
8 MB
16 nm
Process
7 nm
4
Transistor count
8.5
-
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
900 MHz
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
2
Execution units
4
16
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.0576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.1
1.2
OpenCL version
2.1
11
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR4X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
-
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
5 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
NVMe
1920 x 1200
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Max camera resolution
-
1K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
4
Wi-Fi
6
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Jan 2017
Announced
Sep 2019
Mid range
Class
Flagship
Hi6250
Model number
-
