Apple A15 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 2500

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3200MHz)

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic

1290037

Samsung Exynos 2500 +95%

2519784

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

3230 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

10

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

3 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

-

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

-

5

Execution units

-

128

Shading units

-

6

Max size

24

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Jan 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

-

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