Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 1200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 1200 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 1200 36
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Dimensity 1200 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 1200 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 1200 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 1200
CPU 209204 170589
GPU 351594 233643
Memory 118044 118786
UX 130276 145445
Total score 809118 668463
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 7.67% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (3230 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 41.18% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (1200 vs 850 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 21.04% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (809 K vs 668 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 1200 925

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 1200 3246

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 1200 171.75

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 1200 32.25

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 1200 51.5

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 1200 51.65

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 1200 27.35

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 1200 3.76

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 1200 931.9

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @ 168 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 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 32 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 0.32 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • 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 29 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • 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 1200

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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