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
AnTuTu 9
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
L1 cache
12 MB
L2 cache
-
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-
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
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128
Shading units
-
6
Max size
24
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
AI
-
-
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-
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
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-
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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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
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