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58

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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

34

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 720

Dimensity 720
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 720 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 46
Dimensity 720 16
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 47
Dimensity 720 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 58
Dimensity 720 34
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 720
CPU 209204 94857
GPU 351594 73751
Memory 118044 64277
UX 130276 61339
Total score 809118 294224
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 61.50% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (3230 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 41.18% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (1200 vs 850 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 720 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 720 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 175.00% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (809 K vs 294 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 720.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
6%
Dimensity 720
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

50%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 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 7 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G57 MC3
  • Architecture - Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 5 3
  • Shading units 640 48
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 64MP, 2x 20MP
  • 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, 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 2770 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 1200 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - 211 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • 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
46%
GPU
47%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Mediatek Dimensity 720

Mediatek Dimensity 720
CPU
16%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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