Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 7200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 7200 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 7200 31
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 7200 27
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 7200 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 7200 48
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 7200
CPU 209204 160410
GPU 351594 202112
Memory 118044 119625
UX 130276 144980
Total score 809118 627127
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 15.36% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 7200 (3230 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 29.02% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 7200 (809 K vs 627 K).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 7200

  • Dimensity 7200 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A15 Bionic Chip (6400 vs 4266 MHz).
  • Dimensity 7200 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 7200 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
  • Dimensity 7200 Support 19.35% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (40.7 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 7200 889

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 7200 2376

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 7200

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 7200

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 7200

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 7200

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 7200

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 7200

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 7200

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 24 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - QHD+@90 Hz, FHD+@144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2560 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G610 MC4
  • Architecture - Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 4
  • Shading units 640 512
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 40.7 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Mediatek APU 650
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2560 x 1440
  • 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+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - 2CC 5G Modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 7200

CPU
31%
GPU
27%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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