Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 8020

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 8020 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 8020 35
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 8020 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 8020 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 8020 48
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 24.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8020 (3230 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8020 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8020 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 17.72% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8020 (809 K vs 687 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8020.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 8020 826

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 8020 3315

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 8020

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 8020

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 8020

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 8020

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 8020

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 8020

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 8020

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @144 Hz, QHD+ @90 Hz
  • 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

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A -
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture - Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1200 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

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

6 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

12 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 570
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • 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
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 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
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Dimensity 8020

CPU
35%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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