Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio X30

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 . 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 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)

Released 4 years and 7 months late

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +594%

2333

MediaTek Helio X30

336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +414%

5741

MediaTek Helio X30

1115

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +688%

1712

MediaTek Helio X30

217

Apple A15 Bionic

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MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A35

3230 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

6

Cores

10

12 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

5 nm

Process

10 nm

15

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

5

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

32

6

Max size

8

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

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Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

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Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

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

Audio codecs

AMR-NB, ADPCM, AMR-WB, OGG, WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, LAC, APE, AAC-plus v1, AAC-plus v2, WMA, ADPCM

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Feb 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

MT6799

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Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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