HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Apple A17 Pro
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A534x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 3.78 GHz – Everest4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
2360 MHz
3780 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.6-A
Process
16 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4
19
L1 cache
—
256 KB
L2 cache
—
16 MB
TDP
—
8 W
Manufacturing
—
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-T830 MP2
Apple A17 GPU
GPU frequency
900 MHz
1398 MHz
Execution units
2
6
Shading units
16
128
Vulkan version
1.0
—
OpenCL version
1.2
—
DirectX version
11
—
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
933 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
2x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
—
51.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
No
Neural Engine
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
2796 x 1290
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
4
6
Bluetooth
4.2
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Jan 2017
Sep 2023
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
Hi6250
APL1V02
AI
NPU
—
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
—
35 TOPS
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
103,952
1,544,984
Geekbench 6
215
2,953
Geekbench 6
810
7,441
FP32 (float)
57
2,147
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.