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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 820

Dimensity 820
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 820 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 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 820
CPU 209204 125662
GPU 351594 125708
Memory 118044 77949
UX 130276 106547
Total score 809118 435866
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 24.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (3230 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (1200 vs 900 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 85.63% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (809 K vs 436 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 99.77% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (34.1 vs 17.07 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
11%
Dimensity 820
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 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 - 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-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.3-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 MC5
  • Architecture - Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 5 5
  • Shading units 640 80
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 1x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 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, 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 - -
  • 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

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Mediatek Dimensity 820

Mediatek Dimensity 820
CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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