Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A10 Fusion

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Apple A10 Fusion. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Apple A10 Fusion
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1299090
Apple A10 Fusion
398082
CPU309916130186
GPU43210587953
Memory24396474543
UX313105105400
NanoReview Score1299090398082
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Apple A10 Fusion
2632
Stability82 %67 %
Graphics Test56 fps15 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Apple A10 Fusion
878
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Apple A10 Fusion
1319
File Compression203.3 MB/s47.8 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s38.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec41.8 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s3.5 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s12 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s12.1 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec47.3 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec1.53 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
- 2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 4
Frequency 3230 2340
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB 64 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 3 MB
L3 Cache n/a 4 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 16 nm
Transistor count 15 billion 3.3 billion
Power (TDP) 6 W 5 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU PowerVR GT7600
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU PowerVR Series7XT (Rogue)
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 650 MHz
Execution Units 5 6
Shader Units 128 32
Total shader 640 192
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 249.6 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.1
OpenCL n/a 1.2

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine No
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR4
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 1333 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 14.9 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 4 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe NVMe
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 2048x1536 pixels
Camera n/a 1x32 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VC-1
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem n/a Qualcomm MDM9645M
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 12
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 600 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 100 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 5
Bluetooth version 5.0 4.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr September, 2016 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 APL1W24

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A15 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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