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Apple M3 iPad vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency 4050 MHz 2360 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB
L2 cache 16 MB
Process 3 nm 16 nm
Transistor count 25 4
Manufacturing TSMC
Graphics
GPU name Apple M3 GPU Mali-T830 MP2
GPU frequency 1520 MHz 900 MHz
Shading units 144 16
Execution units 2
Vulkan version 1.0
OpenCL version 1.2
DirectX version 11
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR3
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 933 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s
AI
NPU Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance 18 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 1920 x 1200
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 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- AV1- VP9 H.264, H.265
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU) No
Connectivity
5G support Yes No
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 50 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 4
Bluetooth 5.3 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
4G support LTE Cat. 7
Info
Announced Oct 2023 Jan 2017
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number Hi6250
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 2143122 103952
Geekbench 6 Single Core 3037 215
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 11776 810
FP32 (float) 3502 57