SOC

Apple A15 Bionic

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About

The Apple A15 Bionic is a SOC manufactured by Apple, built on Apple's officially announced Neural Engine process technology. This processor features a 6-core architecture design. The Thermal Design Power (TDP) is rated at 6 W. Overall specifications are targeted at mainstream high-performance application scenarios.

Specifications

CPU

Architecture

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Frequency

3230 MHz

Cores

6

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

L1 cache

256 KB

L2 cache

0

Process

5 nm

Transistor count

15

TDP

6 W

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

Execution units

5

Shading units

128

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

Storage type

NVMe

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

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

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

Wi-Fi

6

Bluetooth

5.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Sep 2021

Class

Flagship

Model number

APL1W07

Benchmarks

AnTuTu 10 1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core 2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core 5741

FP32 (float) 1712

Performance Ranking

Geekbench 6 Single Core

29 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100) 2412

30 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100) 2390

31 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) 2347

32 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus 2347

33 Apple A15 Bionic 2333

34 Apple M1 iPad 2304

35 MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus 2302

36 MediaTek Dimensity 9400e 2233

37 Mediatek Dimensity 9300 2225

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

39 Samsung Exynos 2400 6920

40 Apple A16 Bionic 6838

41 MediaTek Dimensity 8450 6406

42 MediaTek Dimensity 8400 6033

43 Apple A15 Bionic 5741

44 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 5570

45 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5344

46 HiSilicon Kirin 9020 5129

47 Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 5098

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