Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 1100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 1100 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 1100 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Dimensity 1100 25
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 1100 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 1100 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 1100
CPU 209204 143843
GPU 351594 205643
Memory 118044 109699
UX 130276 107424
Total score 809118 566609
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 1100 (3230 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 41.18% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1100 (1200 vs 850 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1100 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 42.80% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1100 (809 K vs 567 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 1100 655

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 1100 2500

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 1100 134

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 1100 34.1

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 1100 62.2

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 1100 57.1

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 1100 30.2

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 1100 1.95

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 1100 990.4

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 26 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @144Hz
  • 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

9%
Base Frequency

200 MHz

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

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture - Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 5 9
  • Shading units 640 144
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDRLPDDR4X
  • 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 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 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+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - 5G-integrated modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 19
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • 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
55%
GPU
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Mediatek Dimensity 1100

CPU
28%
GPU
25%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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