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61

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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

27

Points
MediaTek Helio G85

Helio G85
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Helio G85 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 52
Helio G85 13
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 50
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 61
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Helio G85
CPU 209204 67123
GPU 351594 61260
Memory 118044 42828
UX 130276 77565
Total score 809118 248776
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 61.50% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (3230 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 20.00% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G85 (1200 vs 1000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 137.00% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (4266 vs 1800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 58.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (5 vs 12 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 225.24% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (809 K vs 249 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G85.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
4%
Helio G85
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

50%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 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 12 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture - Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 32
  • FLOPS - 59 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.0
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 13.41 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 Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - 300 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - 100 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
52%
GPU
50%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Helio G85

MediaTek Helio G85
CPU
13%
GPU
10%
Memory
21%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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