Apple A11 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 2500
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 10 cores 3300MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Samsung Exynos 2500 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3300MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)
Released 7 years and 11 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
Samsung Exynos 2500
+515%
2519784
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X925
2x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
2390 MHz
Frequency
3300 MHz
6
Cores
10
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
10 nm
Process
3 nm
4.3
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
-
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
3
Execution units
-
64
Shading units
-
4
Max size
24
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
1.0
Vulkan version
-
2.1
OpenCL version
-
12
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
-
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
-
5
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Aug 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W72
Model number
S5E9955
