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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

78

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Samsung Exynos 1280

Exynos 1280
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Exynos 1280 SoCs by Apple and Samsung 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
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Exynos 1280
CPU 209204 121972
GPU 351594 104889
Memory 118044 77341
UX 130276 106223
Total score 809118 410425
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 34.58% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (3230 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 20.00% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (1200 vs 1000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 97.14% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (809 K vs 410 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1280.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
12%
Exynos 1280
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • 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

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture - Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 5 4
  • Shading units 640 48
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP
  • 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, VP8, 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. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • 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
55%
GPU
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Samsung Exynos 1280

Samsung Exynos 1280
CPU
24%
GPU
18%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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