Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio G88

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs MediaTek Helio G88. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and MediaTek Helio G88
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
MediaTek Helio G88
268860
CPU30991690211
GPU43210540709
Memory24396463167
UX31310574773
NanoReview Score1299090268860
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
MediaTek Helio G88
743
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fps4 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
MediaTek Helio G88
425
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
MediaTek Helio G88
1355
File Compression203.3 MB/s73.8 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s39.9 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec50.6 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s3.26 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s11.9 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s25.5 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec42 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec2.13 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
- 6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2000
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB n/a
Process tech. 5 nm 12 nm
Transistor count 15 billion n/a
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 Mali-G52 MP2
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Bifrost 2nd gen
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 1000 MHz
Execution Units 5 2
Shader Units 128 24
Total shader 640 48
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 96 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
OpenCL n/a 2.0

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine MediaTek APU
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 1800 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 8 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - eMMC 5.1
- UFS 2.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 2520x1080 pixels
Camera n/a 1x64 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 300 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 100 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 5
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr June, 2021 yr
Class Flagship Low end
Codename APL1W07 MT6769H

Results

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

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