Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Exynos 1330

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Exynos 1330 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Exynos 1330 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Exynos 1330 19
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Exynos 1330 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Exynos 1330 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Exynos 1330
CPU 209204 133870
GPU 351594 84349
Memory 118044 79108
UX 130276 117360
Total score 809118 414687
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 1330 (3230 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1330 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 95.12% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1330 (809 K vs 415 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1330.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Exynos 1330 770

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Exynos 1330 2384

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Exynos 1330

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Exynos 1330

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Exynos 1330

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Exynos 1330

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Exynos 1330

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Exynos 1330

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Exynos 1330

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @120Hz
  • 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 ARMv8.2-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 MP2
  • Architecture - Valhal 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 2
  • 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • 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, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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
  • 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

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

Samsung Exynos 1330

CPU
28%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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