90

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Apple A18
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Apple A18 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 52
Apple A18 93
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 50
Apple A18 89
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 61
Apple A18 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Apple A18
CPU 209204 421143
GPU 351594 615010
Memory 118044 178670
UX 130276 345874
Total score 809118 1560697
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 13.76% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 (4266 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 25.08% higher CPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (4040 vs 3230 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 16.50% higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (1398 vs 1200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 40% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 92.89% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (1,561 K vs 809 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Apple A18

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Apple A18

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Apple A18

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Apple A18

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 6 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture - Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 640 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • 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
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, 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 - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
52%
GPU
50%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A18

CPU
93%
GPU
89%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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