Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio X20
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2100MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 20nm)
Released 6 years and 4 months late
MediaTek Helio X20 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+1629%
1712
MediaTek Helio X20
99
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
3230 MHz
Frequency
2100 MHz
6
Cores
10
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
12 MB
L2 cache
-
5 nm
Process
20 nm
15
Transistor count
3
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-T880 MP4
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
780 MHz
5
Execution units
4
128
Shading units
16
6
Max size
4
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0998 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11.2
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
12.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
-
Max camera resolution
1x 25MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
May 2015
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W07
Model number
MT6797
