Apple A15 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 990

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 . 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 1.126 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2730MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Samsung Exynos 990 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +82%

1290037

Samsung Exynos 990

707030

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +177%

2333

Samsung Exynos 990

842

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +114%

5741

Samsung Exynos 990

2672

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +52%

1712

Samsung Exynos 990

1126

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Samsung Exynos 990

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

3230 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

7 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP11

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

5

Execution units

11

128

Shading units

64

6

Max size

16

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.126 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

-

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

S5E9830

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 990

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