Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Helio G90T

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Helio G90T 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
Helio G90T 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Helio G90T 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Helio G90T 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Helio G90T 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 57.56% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G90T (3230 vs 2050 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 50.00% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G90T (1200 vs 800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Helio G90T (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 58.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G90T (5 vs 12 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 179.01% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G90T (809 K vs 290 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G90T.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Helio G90T 545

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Helio G90T 1706

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Helio G90T 94.5

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Helio G90T 13.8

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Helio G90T 31.1

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Helio G90T 25.6

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Helio G90T 13.1

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Helio G90T 1.89

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Helio G90T 494.9

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 87%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2050 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
    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 12 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G76 MC4
  • Architecture - Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 800 MHz
  • Execution units 5 4
  • Shading units 640 64
  • FLOPS - 184 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

6 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

10 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 24MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K 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

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 600 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • 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

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Mediatek Helio G90T

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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