Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 6100 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 6100 Plus 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 6100 Plus 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 6100 Plus 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 6100 Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 6100 Plus 39
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 6100 Plus
CPU 209204 112256
GPU 351594 98184
Memory 118044 66187
UX 130276 84704
Total score 809118 361331
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 46.82% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 6100 Plus (3230 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 26.32% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 6100 Plus (1200 vs 950 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 6100 Plus (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 6100 Plus (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 123.93% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 6100 Plus (809 K vs 361 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 6100 Plus.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 99.77% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 6100 Plus (34.1 vs 17.07 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 6100 Plus 580

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 6100 Plus 1707

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 6100 Plus

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 6100 Plus

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 6100 Plus

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 6100 Plus

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 6100 Plus

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 6100 Plus

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 6100 Plus

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture - Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 32
  • FLOPS - 243 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - 3GPP Release-16 standard 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • 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
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Dimensity 6100 Plus

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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