Apple A15 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 . 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 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +782%

1290037

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +1256%

2333

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +1059%

5741

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +7681%

1712

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

Apple A15 Bionic

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Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

3230 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

14 nm

15

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

16

6

Max size

4

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

-

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

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

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W07

Model number

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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