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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 930

Dimensity 930
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 930

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 930 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 930 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Dimensity 930 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 930 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 930 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 930
CPU 209204 137539
GPU 351594 130844
Memory 118044 97521
UX 130276 140904
Total score 809118 506808
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 46.82% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 930 (3230 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 930 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 59.65% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 930 (809 K vs 507 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 930.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 930 780

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 930 2469

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 930

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 930

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 930

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 930

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 930

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 930

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 930

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
N/A
Dimensity 930
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 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 IMG BXM-8-256
  • Architecture - PowerVR B-Series
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 -
  • 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 -
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 6 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 2K 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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE. Cat.24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • 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

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

Mediatek Dimensity 930

Mediatek Dimensity 930
CPU
29%
GPU
22%
Memory
0%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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