Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Samsung Exynos 2100
We’ve prepared an in-depth comparison between the newly launched A15 Bionic Chip and Exynos 2100 SoCs, developed by Apple and Samsung respectively. We’ve evaluated the pros and cons of these 6-core and 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmark scores alongside their technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of A15 Bionic Chip
- A15 Bionic Chip has 11.38% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 2100 (3230 vs 2900 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Exynos 2100 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 7.63 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 2100 (809 K vs 752 K).
- A15 Bionic Chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 2100.
Pros of Exynos 2100
- Exynos 2100 has -36.67 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 760 vs 1200 MHz).
- Exynos 2100 Support 50.15 % higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip ( 51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 209204 | 202484 |
| GPU | 351594 | 285430 |
| Memory | 118044 | 123653 |
| UX | 130276 | 140161 |
| Total score | 809118 | 751728 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 66% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 33 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 5655 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard |
1x 2.9 GHz – Cortex-X1 3x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78 4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 2200MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 2900MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv8.4-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | 9 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Mali-G78 MP14 |
| Architecture | - | Valhall 2 |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 760 MHz |
| Pipelines | 5 | 14 |
| Shading units | 640 | 224 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 448 |
| FLOPS | - | 976 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | AI Engine with Triple-core NPU and DSP (26 TOPS) |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 4096 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Exynos Modem 5200 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 7526 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 3072 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 3758 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 422 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2021 | December 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | S5E9840 |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Exynos 2100 official site |