Apple A15 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 990

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Samsung Exynos 990. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Samsung Exynos 990
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 990
727249
CPU309916201538
GPU432105231438
Memory243964138841
UX313105155432
NanoReview Score1299090727249
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Samsung Exynos 990
3784
Stability82 %60 %
Graphics Test56 fps22 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Samsung Exynos 990
840
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Samsung Exynos 990
2670
File Compression203.3 MB/s126.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s68.4 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec90.2 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s9.95 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s21 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s60.6 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec88.9 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec3.37 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
- 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
- 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2730
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 2 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 15 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Mali-G77 MP11
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Valhall 1st gen
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 832 MHz
Execution Units 5 11
Shader Units 128 32
Total shader 640 352
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 585.7 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 Yes
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS 15 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 2750 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 2.1
- UFS 3.0
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 3840x2400 pixels
Camera n/a 1x108 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS
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

Modem n/a Exynos 5123
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 7350 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 3670 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.1
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr October, 2019 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 S5E9830

Results

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

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