Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 659
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
2490 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
128 KB
-
L2 cache
0
-
Process
7 nm
16 nm
Transistor count
6.9
4
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
-
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
900 MHz
Execution units
4
2
Shading units
64
16
Vulkan version
1.1
1.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.2
DirectX version
12
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
No
Storage type
NVMe
eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1920 x 1200
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
1K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 7
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
4
Bluetooth
5.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Announced
Sep 2018
Jan 2017
Class
Flagship
Mid range
Model number
APL1W81
Hi6250
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
103,952
Geekbench 6
1,301
215
Geekbench 6
2,843
810
FP32 (float)
576
57