Apple A11 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 990
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A11 Bionic 's Advantages
Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)
Samsung Exynos 990 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.126 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
Samsung Exynos 990
+72%
707030
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+30%
1097
Samsung Exynos 990
842
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
2357
Samsung Exynos 990
+13%
2672
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
409
Samsung Exynos 990
+175%
1126
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
2390 MHz
Frequency
2730 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
0
10 nm
Process
7 nm
4.3
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G77 MP11
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
800 MHz
3
Execution units
11
64
Shading units
64
4
Max size
16
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.126 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.3
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2750 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
44 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
3840 x 2400
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 25MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Exynos 5123
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7350 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3670 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Oct 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W72
Model number
S5E9830
