Apple A15 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 2500
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 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 3230MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
Samsung Exynos 2500
+95%
2519784
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
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
3230 MHz
Frequency
3300 MHz
6
Cores
10
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
12 MB
L2 cache
-
5 nm
Process
3 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
-
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
-
6
Max size
24
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
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)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
-
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Aug 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
S5E9955
