Apple A15 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 9820

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.607 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 33.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2730MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 8nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +98%

1290037

Samsung Exynos 9820

648880

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +212%

2333

Samsung Exynos 9820

747

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +146%

5741

Samsung Exynos 9820

2333

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +182%

1712

Samsung Exynos 9820

607

Apple A15 Bionic

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Samsung Exynos 9820

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Mongoose M4
2x 2.31 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

3230 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

8 nm

15

Transistor count

8.5

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP12

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

702 MHz

5

Execution units

12

128

Shading units

36

6

Max size

12

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.607 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

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

33.4 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

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

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Modem

Exynos 5100

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2000 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Nov 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

S5E9820

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Official page

Samsung Exynos 9820

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