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Apple M5 (iPad) vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency 4600 MHz 2360 MHz
Cores 10 8
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 320 KB
L2 cache 16 MB
Process 3 nm 16 nm
Manufacturing TSMC
Transistor count 4
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR3
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 933 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth 153 Gb/s
AI
NPU Apple Neural Engine
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 1920 x 1200
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
Max camera resolution 1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
5G support Yes No
Wi-Fi 7 4
Bluetooth 6.0 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Download speed Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 50 Mbps
Info
Announced Oct 2025 Jan 2017
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number Hi6250
Graphics
GPU name Mali-T830 MP2
GPU frequency 900 MHz
Execution units 2
Shading units 16
Vulkan version 1.0
OpenCL version 1.2
DirectX version 11
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 3155649 103952
Geekbench 6 Single Core 4175 215
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 15577 810