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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

78

Points
Google Tensor

Tensor
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Tensor

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Tensor SoCs by Apple and Google respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-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 55
Tensor 36
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Tensor 34
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Tensor 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Tensor 51
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Tensor
CPU 209204 181161
GPU 351594 294446
Memory 118044 103174
UX 130276 145388
Total score 809118 724169
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 15.36% higher CPU clock speed than Tensor (3230 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 41.51% higher GPU clock speed than Tensor (1200 vs 848 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Tensor (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 11.73% better AnTuTu 9 score than Tensor (809 K vs 724 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Tensor.

Pros of Google Tensor

  • Tensor Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Tensor 1026

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Tensor 2879

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Tensor

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Tensor

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Tensor

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Tensor

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Tensor

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Tensor

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Tensor

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
32%
Tensor
Stability 56%

Graphics test 37 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4k, FHD+ @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X1
    2x 2.25 GHz – Cortex A76
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB 3 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 5.6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G78 MP20
  • Architecture - Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 848 MHz
  • Execution units 5 20
  • Shading units 640 320
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Tensor Processing Unit
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Exynos 5300g
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Google Tensor

Google Tensor
CPU
36%
GPU
34%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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