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Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio G81

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Helio G81 . 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 0.0912 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 13.41GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2000MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 12nm)
MediaTek Helio G81 Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic +392%
1290037
MediaTek Helio G81
262145
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic +1781%
1712
MediaTek Helio G81
91

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
3230 MHz
Frequency
2000 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
12 MB
L2 cache
-
5 nm
Process
12 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G52 MP2
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
950 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
24
6
Max size
8
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0912 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0

Memory

LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1800 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
13.41 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
-
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
2K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
2K 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
-
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
-
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021
Announced
Aug 2024
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1W07
Model number
-
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