Apple A13 Bionic vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Apple A13 Bionic

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . 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 0.6298 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2650MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A13 Bionic

891274

Apple A15 Bionic +44%

1290037

FP32 (float)

Apple A13 Bionic

629

Apple A15 Bionic +172%

1712

Apple A13 Bionic

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Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

Architecture

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

2650 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv8.4-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

8 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

7 nm

Process

5 nm

8.5

Transistor count

15

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A13 GPU

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

1230 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

4

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

0.6298 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.1

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

5 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W07

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