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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

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Apple A15 Bionic is an 6-core processor introduced on September 14, 2021 and built on a 5-nanometer fabrication technique. It has 2 Avalanche cores clocked at 3230 MHz and 4 Blizzard cores clocked at 2020 MHz integrated with "Apple A15 GPU" Graphical Processing Unit (GPU).


Apple A15 Bionic Chip

review: specs and price

Apple A15 Bionic is an 6-core processor introduced on September 14, 2021 and built on a 5-nanometer fabrication technique. It has 2 Avalanche cores clocked at 3230 MHz and 4 Blizzard cores clocked at 2020 MHz integrated with "Apple A15 GPU" Graphical Processing Unit (GPU).


Features

CPU Performance
55
Gaming Performance
56
Antatu Benchmark
809118
Battery Life
82
Performance
64

AnTuTu 9

Total Benchmark Score

809118
42%
CPU Performance

209204

38%
GPU Performance

351594

33%
Memory Performance

118044

38%
UX Performance

130276

GeekBench 5

1743

Single-Core Score
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4844

Multi-Core Score
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224.8 Mpixels/s

Image compression
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43.1 images/s

Face detection
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136.1 words/s

Speech recognition
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104.9 images/s

Machine learning
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49.3 images/s

Camera shooting
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1270 Krows/s

SQLite
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3DMark Wild Life Performance

Stability

82 %

Graphics test

56 FPS

Score

9524

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU

85%
Turbo Frequency

3230 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz


  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
  • Cores 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB
  • L3 cache -
  • Process 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion
  • TDP 6 W

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU
  • Architecture -
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz
  • Execution units 5
  • Shading units 640
  • FLOPS -
  • Vulkan version -
  • OpenCL version -
  • DirectX version -

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 MHz
memory-frequency

Max Size

6 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution -
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Connectivity

  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
4G
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G

  • Modem -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

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

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