Apple A9 vs HiSilicon Kirin 658
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2350MHz HiSilicon Kirin 658 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A9 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)
HiSilicon Kirin 658 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2350MHz vs 1850MHz)
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A9
+202%
623
HiSilicon Kirin 658
206
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A9
+31%
957
HiSilicon Kirin 658
729
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
+336%
0.249 TFLOPS
HiSilicon Kirin 658
0.057 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
4x 2.35 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
1850 MHz
Frequency
2350 MHz
2
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
3 MB
L2 cache
-
0
L3 cache
-
14 nm
Process
16 nm
2
Transistor count
4
5 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
650 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
6
Execution units
2
32
Shading units
16
4
Max size
4
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0576 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
1.2
OpenCL version
1.2
11
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR3
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
No
5G support
No
Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Sep 2015
Announced
Mar 2017
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1022
Model number
-
-
-
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