Apple A11 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 980
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A11 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.2621 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2200MHz)
Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)
Samsung Exynos 980 's Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 10nm)
Released 2 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
Samsung Exynos 980
+5%
433794
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+26%
1097
Samsung Exynos 980
869
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+26%
2357
Samsung Exynos 980
1867
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
+56%
409
Samsung Exynos 980
262
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2390 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
10 nm
Process
8 nm
4.3
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP5
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
728 MHz
3
Execution units
5
64
Shading units
36
4
Max size
8
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2621 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.3
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
3360 x 1440
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Exynos 5123
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 3550 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1380 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Sep 2019
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W72
Model number
S5E9630
