Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 800U

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 800U 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 800U 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 800U 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 800U 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 800U 37
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 34.58% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (3230 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 41.18% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (1200 vs 850 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 800U (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 800U (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 101.03% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 800U (809 K vs 402 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 800U.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 99.77% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 800U (34.1 vs 17.07 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 800U 594

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 800U 1683

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 800U 105.3

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 800U 15.5

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 800U 33.8

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 800U 28.6

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 800U 14.4

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 800U 2.08

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 800U 534.9

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 9 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @ 120Hz
  • 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

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8-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

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

6 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

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

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 2300 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Mediatek Dimensity 800U

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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