Exynos 8895 vs A11 Bionic

We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 8895 (Mali-G71 MP20) with the newer 6-core Apple A11 Bionic (Apple A11 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Samsung Exynos 8895
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Better instruction set architecture
Pros of Apple A11 Bionic
  • Higher GPU frequency (~2x)
  • Performs 56% better in floating-point computations
  • Shows significantly better (up to 44%) AnTuTu 11 score – 626K vs 435K
  • Supports 19% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 28.7 GB/s)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
435852
A11 Bionic +44%
626912
CPU 179410 254993
GPU 79605 116883
Memory 110545 96795
UX 66292 158241
Total score 435852 626912
Samples [16 tests] Less than 3
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
A11 Bionic +161%
1093
Multi-Core Score
A11 Bionic +27%
1828
Asset compression 79.3 MB/sec 113.5 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 43.9 pages/sec 58.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 50.9 Mpixels/sec 82.1 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 14.7 images/sec 23.6 images/sec
HDR 51.8 Mpixels/sec 83.6 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 2.74 images/sec 10.1 images/sec
Photo processing 11.8 images/sec 29.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 2.23 Mpixels/sec 3.32 Mpixels/sec
Samples 9 tests 6 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
A11 Bionic +208%
5630
Background blur 7.22 images/sec 12.3 images/sec
Face detection 4.13 images/sec 11.3 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.23 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.24 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.05 Gpixels/sec 0.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 17 Gpixels/sec 12.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 628.1 FPS 324.3 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Samples 3 tests 3 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Score - 892
Stability - 59%
Graphics test - 5 FPS

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 8895
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-03 (leo)AnTuTu 11421047
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-22 -> TranHongPhucGeekbench 6 CPU419 / 1445
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-22 -> TranHongPhucGeekbench 6 GPU1800
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-22 -> TranHongPhucGeekbench 6 CPU378 / 642
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-22 -> TranHongPhucAnTuTu 11399314
Apple A11 Bionic
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-03 (alwayssonqz)Geekbench 6 GPU5436
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-03 (alwayssonqz)Geekbench 6 CPU1075 / 2393
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-13 (TestGame)Geekbench 6 GPU5630
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-13 (TestGame)Geekbench 6 CPU1093 / 1828
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-08 -> TangerineGeekbench 6 CPU1105 / 2629

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 8895 and A11 Bionic

CPU

Architecture 4x 2.314 GHz – Exynos M2
4x 1.69 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Cores 8 6
Frequency 2314 MHz 2390 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - 64 KB
L2 cache 2 MB 8 MB
Process 10 nanometers 10 nanometers
Transistor count 3 billion 4.3 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W 8 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G71 MP20 Apple A11 GPU
Architecture Bifrost 1st gen Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 546 MHz 1066 MHz
Pipelines 20 3
Shading units 12 64
Total shaders 240 192
FLOPS 262.1 Gigaflops 409.3 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) No Apple Neural Engine

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1800 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 2x 32 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 28.7 Gb/s 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 6 GB 4 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 2.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2400 2436 x 1125
Max camera resolution 1x 28MP, 2x 16MP 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - 192 kHz/24 bit - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Shannon 355 -
4G support LTE Cat. 16 LTE Cat. 12
5G support No No
Download speed Up to 1000 Mbps Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced February 2017 September 2017
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number S5E8895 APL1071
Official page Samsung Exynos 8895 official site -
Successor - Samsung Exynos 2500 - Apple A19 Pro

Cast your vote

So, which SoC would you choose?
64 (44.4%)
80 (55.6%)
Total votes: 144

Comments

Please give your opinion on the comparison of A11 Bionic and Exynos 8895, or ask any questions
🌐 Register your profile and become part of NanoReview community!
Avatar
Jaspher September 29, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Vro my IPhone X still run War thunder Mobile 60fps in low settings πŸ˜‘
0 Reply
Avatar
Joshua Mahinay March 11, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Samsung Galaxy S8 has very beautiful Camera and gaming test No lag Samsung Galaxy S8 has Powerful Mobile Galaxy S8 made ln korea has the best Mobile
0 Reply