Samsung Exynos 990 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Samsung Exynos 990

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 990 Advantages

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

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

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 990

707030

Apple A15 Bionic +82%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 990

842

Apple A15 Bionic +177%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 990

2672

Apple A15 Bionic +114%

5741

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 990

1126

Apple A15 Bionic +52%

1712

Samsung Exynos 990

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2730 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

1 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

9 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP11

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

800 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

11

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

128

16

Max size

6

1.126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 108MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Exynos 5123

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7350 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

S5E9830

Model number

APL1W07

Samsung Exynos 990

Official page

-

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