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Apple A12 Bionic vs HiSilicon Kirin 650

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 15 %
HiSilicon Kirin 650
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 28 %
HiSilicon Kirin 650
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,116
HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz
163
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,731
HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz
763
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12
576
HiSilicon Kirin 650
ARM Mali-T830 MP2
61

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 650
FamilyApple A series (27)HiSilicon Kirin (29)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)HiSilicon Kirin 650 (4)
ArchitectureA12Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53
Technology7 nm16 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A11 Bionic
SuccessorApple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 650
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
2.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
1.70 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 650
GPU nameApple A12ARM Mali-T830 MP2
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 2562 / 32
Raytracing
Max. displays12
Max. GPU Memory4 GB
Technology7 nm28nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q4/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 650
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 650
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR3-933
Max. Memory4 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 650
TDP6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicHiSilicon Kirin 650
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q2/2016
Release price
Documents

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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
HiSilicon Kirin 650
HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

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