Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 8300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 8300 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 8300 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 8300 58
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 8300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 8300 67
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 8300
CPU 209204 282796
GPU 351594 542690
Memory 118044 328720
UX 130276 249840
Total score 809118 1404046
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8300

  • Dimensity 8300 has 3.72% higher CPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (3350 vs 3230 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 16.67% higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (1400 vs 1200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 73.53% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (1,404 K vs 809 K ).
  • Dimensity 8300 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
  • Dimensity 8300 Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (68.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 8300 1512

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 8300 4886

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 8300

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 8300

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 8300

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 8300

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 8300

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 8300

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 8300

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WQHD+ @ 120Hz, FHD+ @ 180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

89%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9-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-G615 MP6
  • Architecture - Valhall 4rd gen
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1400 MHz
  • Execution units 5 6
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 780
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • 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 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
  • 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 8300

CPU
57%
GPU
58%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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