Apple A15 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 1580

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Samsung Exynos 1580. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Samsung Exynos 1580
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
Samsung Exynos 1580
906997
CPU309916289519
GPU432105265302
Memory243964156294
UX313105195882
NanoReview Score1299090906997
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Samsung Exynos 1580
n/a
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Samsung Exynos 1580
1360
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Samsung Exynos 1580
3893
File Compression203.3 MB/s184.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s112.2 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec138.4 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s15 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s35 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s68 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec104.8 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec4.96 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 2.9 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A520
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2900
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB n/a
Process tech. 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 15 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Samsung Xclipse 540
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Magellan (RDNA 3)
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 1300 MHz
Execution Units 5 2
Shader Units 128 128
Total shader 640 256
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 1331.2 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12.1

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine Yes
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS 14.7 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 12 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 2960x1440 pixels
Camera n/a 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 5100 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 1280 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr October, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1W07 S5E8855

Results

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

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