Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Samsung Exynos 2200
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched A15 Bionic Chip and Exynos 2200 SoCs, developed by Apple and Samsung respectively. Our assessment weighs the benefits and drawbacks of these 6-core and 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, as well as their full 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 15.36% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 2200 (3230 vs 2800 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Exynos 2200 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
Pros of Exynos 2200
- Exynos 2200 has 8.33 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 1300 vs 1200 MHz).
- Exynos 2200 has 20.00 % smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip ( 4 vs 5 nm).
- Exynos 2200 has 16.73 % better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip ( 945 K vs 809 K).
- Exynos 2200 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip .
- Exynos 2200 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 | 223163 |
| GPU | 351594 | 391575 |
| Memory | 118044 | 175188 |
| UX | 130276 | 154579 |
| Total score | 809118 | 944505 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 59% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 39 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 6531 |
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 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X2 3x 2.52 GHz – Cortex-A710 4x 1.82 GHz – Cortex-A510 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 1820MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 2800MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv9-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Samsung Xclipse 920 |
| Architecture | - | RDNA 2 |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 1300 MHz |
| Pipelines | 5 | 24 |
| Shading units | 640 | 384 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 768 |
| FLOPS | - | - |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Yes |
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 | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 200MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 240FPS |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 3000 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 | January 2022 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | S5E9925 |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Exynos 2200 official site |