Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Tiger T612

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Tiger T612 SoCs by Apple and Unisoc 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
Tiger T612 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Tiger T612 8
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Tiger T612 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Tiger T612 26
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Tiger T612
CPU 209204 67603
GPU 351594 22171
Memory 118044 61955
UX 130276 58129
Total score 809118 209858
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 79.44% higher CPU clock speed than Tiger T612 (3230 vs 1800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 84.62% higher GPU clock speed than Tiger T612 (1200 vs 650 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 166.63% higher memory frequency than Tiger T612 (4266 vs 1600 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 58.33% smaller sized transistor than Tiger T612 (5 vs 12 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 285.55% better AnTuTu 9 score than Tiger T612 (809 K vs 210 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Tiger T612.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Tiger T612 347

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Tiger T612 1293

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Tiger T612

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Tiger T612

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Tiger T612

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Tiger T612

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Tiger T612

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Tiger T612

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Tiger T612

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 60Hz, HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2160 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

48%
Turbo Clock Speed

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 1.8 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 -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G57 MP1
  • Architecture - Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 650 MHz
  • Execution units 5 1
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.0
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 11
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 1600 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2160 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 50MP
  • 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+ AAC, 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
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%

Unisoc Tiger T612

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