Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 8050

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 8050 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 8050 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Dimensity 8050 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 8050 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 8050 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 8050
CPU 209204 217200
GPU 351594 208098
Memory 118044 138670
UX 130276 138035
Total score 809118 702003
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 7.67% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8050 (3230 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 41.18% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 8050 (1200 vs 850 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8050 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8050 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 15.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8050 (809 K vs 702 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8050.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 8050 964

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 8050 3261

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 8050

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 8050

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 8050

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 8050

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 8050

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 8050

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 8050

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 96%

Graphics test 27 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - QHD+ @ 90 Hz, FHD+ @ 168 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

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 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 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture - Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 5 9
  • Shading units 640 144
  • FLOPS - 980 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 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 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 200MP
  • 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, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 19
  • 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
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Dimensity 8050

CPU
39%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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