HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Apple A15 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A15 Bionic 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
HiSilicon Kirin 659
103952
Apple A15 Bionic
+1140%
1290037
Geekbench 6 Single Core
HiSilicon Kirin 659
215
Apple A15 Bionic
+985%
2333
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
HiSilicon Kirin 659
810
Apple A15 Bionic
+608%
5741
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 659
57
Apple A15 Bionic
+2903%
1712
CPU
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
2360 MHz
Frequency
3230 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
-
L2 cache
12 MB
16 nm
Process
5 nm
4
Transistor count
15
-
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU name
Apple A15 GPU
900 MHz
GPU frequency
1338 MHz
2
Execution units
5
16
Shading units
128
4
Max size
6
0.0576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7126 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
-
1.2
OpenCL version
-
11
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR4X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
-
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
NVMe
1920 x 1200
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
4
Wi-Fi
6
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Jan 2017
Announced
Sep 2021
Mid range
Class
Flagship
Hi6250
Model number
APL1W07
