Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 8100 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 55
Dimensity 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 8100
CPU 209204 204875
GPU 351594 311503
Memory 118044 130636
UX 130276 161518
Total score 809118 808532
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 13.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (3230 vs 2850 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 31.58% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (1200 vs 912 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 0.07% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8100 (809 K vs 809 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8100.

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A15 Bionic Chip (6400 vs 4266 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 8100 4081

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 8100

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 8100

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 8100

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 8100

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 8100

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 8100

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 8100

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    4x 2.85 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 - 4 MB
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture - Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units 5 6
  • Shading units 640 -
  • 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 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • 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+ AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - R16-ready 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, 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 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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