Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 1080 SoCs by Apple and Mediatek 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
Dimensity 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 1080
CPU 209204 143941
GPU 351594 140125
Memory 118044 96692
UX 130276 136066
Total score 809118 516824
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 24.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (3230 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 26.32% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (1200 vs 950 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1080 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1080 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 56.56% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1080 (809 K vs 517 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1080.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 26.30% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (34.1 vs 27 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 1080 2252

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 1080

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 1080

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 1080

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 1080

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 1080

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 1080

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 1080

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture - Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 5 5
  • Shading units 640 64
  • 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 27 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 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

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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