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58

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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

55

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Apple A14 Bionic

A14 Bionic
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs A14 Bionic SoCs by Apple. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 46
A14 Bionic 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 47
A14 Bionic 41
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 58
A14 Bionic 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip A14 Bionic
CPU 209204 203493
GPU 351594 284242
Memory 118044 131989
UX 130276 131211
Total score 809118 750935
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 4.19% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3230 vs 3100 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 7.75% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (809 K vs 751 K).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
43%
A14 Bionic
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 6 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 128 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 8 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture - -
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 4
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 7500 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps 2500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
46%
GPU
47%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A14 Bionic

Apple A14 Bionic
CPU
42%
GPU
41%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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