HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Apple A18 Pro

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
2360 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
16 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4
-
L1 cache
-
320 KB
L2 cache
-
16 MB
L3 cache
-
16 MB
TDP
-
10 W
Manufacturing
-
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
Apple A18 Pro GPU
GPU frequency
900 MHz
1490 MHz
Execution units
2
6
Shading units
16
128
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
933 MHz
3750 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
-
60 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
No
Neural Engine
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
-
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 7
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
4
7
Bluetooth
4.2
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Jan 2017
Sep 2024
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
Hi6250
APL1V07

AI

NPU
-
Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
35 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
103,952
1,890,277
Geekbench 6
215
3,582
Geekbench 6
810
9,089
FP32 (float)
57
2,289