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MediaTek Helio G37
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Helio G37

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Helio G37 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
Helio G37 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Helio G37 8
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Helio G37 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Helio G37 26
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Helio G37
CPU 209204 37521
GPU 351594 27112
Memory 118044 33579
UX 130276 40621
Total score 809118 138833
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 40.43% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G37 (3230 vs 2300 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 76.47% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G37 (1200 vs 680 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 166.63% higher memory frequency than Helio G37 (4266 vs 1600 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 58.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G37 (5 vs 12 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 482.80% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G37 (809 K vs 139 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G37.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Helio G37 914

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Helio G37 178

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Helio G37

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Helio G37

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Helio G37

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Helio G37

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Helio G37

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Helio G37

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Helio G37

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2400 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 2.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU IMG PowerVR GE8320
  • Architecture - Rogue
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 680 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 64
  • FLOPS - 56 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 1.2
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 1600 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 13.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine No
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2400 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 50MP, 2x 13MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • 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
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Helio G37

CPU
14%
GPU
8%
Memory
19%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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