Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 8200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 8200 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 8200 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 8200 40
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 8200 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 8200 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 8200
CPU 209204 210639
GPU 351594 339646
Memory 118044 139322
UX 130276 160894
Total score 809118 850501
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 4.19% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8200 (3230 vs 3100 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8200.

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8200

  • Dimensity 8200 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A15 Bionic Chip (6400 vs 4266 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 5.11% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (851 K vs 809 K ).
  • Dimensity 8200 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 8200 1054

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 8200 4010

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 8200

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 8200

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 8200

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 8200

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 8200

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 8200

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 8200

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 120Hz WQHD+ / 180Hz Full HD+ display support
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+ Adaptive support
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 3.1 GHz – Cortex A78
    3x 3 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 - 4 MB
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture - Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 6
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.2
  • 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 MediaTek APU 580(Multi-Core)
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
  • 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6E
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • 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 8200

CPU
43%
GPU
40%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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