A15 Bionic vs A10 Fusion
We compared the 6-core Apple A15 Bionic (Apple GPU) with the older 4-core A10 Fusion (PowerVR GT7600) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A15 Bionic
- Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 16 nm)
- Shows significantly better (up to 2.7x) AnTuTu 9 score – 796K vs 298K
- Announced 5-years and 1-month later
- Has 2 more cores
- 38% higher CPU clock speed (3240 vs 2340 MHz)
- Higher GPU frequency (~33%)
- Better instruction set architecture
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Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 216602 | 94978 |
| GPU | 336667 | 92122 |
| Memory | 112950 | 41888 |
| UX | 131916 | 72094 |
| Total score | 796697 | 298250 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 224.8 Mpixels/s | 65.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 43.1 images/s | 10.2 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 136.1 words/s | 26.1 words/s |
| Machine learning | 104.9 images/s | 27.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 49.3 images/s | 14.3 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 5.64 Mnodes/s | 1.83 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 1270 Krows/s | 427.2 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 67% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 15 FPS |
| Score | 9471 | 2640 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A15 Bionic and A10 FusionCPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.24 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard |
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane 2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr |
| Cores | 6 | 4 |
| Frequency | 3240 MHz | 2340 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | 3 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 MB |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 16 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | 3.3 billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 5 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Architecture | - | Rogue |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Execution units | 5 | 6 |
| Shading units | 640 | 196 |
| FLOPS | - | 115 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | - |
| Max bandwidth | 42.7 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 8 GB | 3 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | No |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 2048 x 1536 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Qualcomm MDM9645M |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed | - | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | - | Up to 100 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | September 2021 | September 2016 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | - |
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