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Apple A11 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa

Apple A11 Bionic

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The Apple A11 Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. It was announced late 2017 and offers 6 cores divided in 2 performance cores and four power efficiency cores. In comparison to the A10X all 6 cores can be used at once, leading to a much higher theoretical performance. In our benchmarks the SoC however is not only faster in multi threaded tests (+77% versus A10 Fusion in Geekbench), but also in single threaded tests (+19%). Apple states 25% more performance compared to the A10 in the iPhone 7.

With 4.3 Billion transistors, the A11 Bionic is a rather big chip especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core Soc (1.75 Billion).

Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa

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The Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa (also called Exynos 7 Octa) is a high-end system-on-a-chip (SoC) for smartphones and tablets. It was launched in March 2015 alongside the Samsung Galaxy S6 and features four Cortex-A57 cores clocked at up to 2.1 GHz. Furthermore, there are four additional Cortex-A53 cores at up to 1.5 GHz, an ARM Mali-T760 MP8 GPU and a 2x 32 bit LPDDR4-3104 memory controller (up to 24.8 GB/s). It is one of the first fully 64-bit capable ARM SoCs for Android devices.

Processor

Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 represent the successors of the Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 architecture. In addition to some small tweaks leading to a somewhat higher performance per clock, both Cortex-A57 and -A53 are now 64-bit capable ARMv8 designs (Cortex-A15 and -A7: 32 bit ARMv7). Thanks to its advanced 14 nm process, clocks and performance of the Exynos 7420 are quite stable even in long-lasting benchmarks. Overall, the cpu performance is above the Nvidia Tegra K1 or Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

While the powerful Cortex-A57 cores will handle complex software and games, the SoC can switch to the more efficient Cortex-A53 cluster in less demanding applications. If necessary, it's possible to activate individual cores from each cluster or even all eight cores at the same time. This concept developed by ARM is known as "big.LITTLE" and intended to improve the battery life.

Graphics

The Exynos 7420 integrates a Mali-T760 MP8 GPU, which offers eight shader clusters clocked at up to 772 MHz (302 GFLOPS). The Mali-T760 supports OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenCL 1.1 and DirectX 11 and offers a performance above the Adreno 430 (Snapdragon 810) or PowerVR GX6450 (Apple A8). Thus, the GPU is one of the high-end solutions as of 2015 and can handle even the most demanding Android games in high resolutions (Galaxy S6: 2560 x 1440 pixels) and detail settings.

Power Consumption

The Exynos 7 Octa is the first smartphone SoC to be manufactured in a 14 nm process with FinFETs (Samsung LPE). Therefore, the Exynos 7420 is one of the most energy efficient chips in early 2015 and runs much cooler than the competing Qualcomm Snapdragon 810.

ModelApple A11 BionicSamsung Exynos 7420 Octa
SeriesApple Apple A-SeriesSamsung Exynos
CodenameMonsoon / MistralCortex-A57/-A53
Clock <=2390 MHz2100 MHz
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache8 MB
Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Transistors4300 Million
Technology10 nm14 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction SetARM Mali-T760 MP8 GPU (773 MHz), 4x Cortex-A57 (2.1 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.5 GHz, big.LITTLE), 2x 32 Bit LPDDR4 Memory Controller
iGPUApple A11 Bionic GPUARM Mali-T760 MP8 (700 - 772 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Series: Exynos Cortex-A57/-A53
Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa « 2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A57/-A53
Samsung Exynos 5433 Octa compare1.9 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A57/-A53
Manufacturerwww.samsung.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 24131     avg: 25135     median: 25633 (22%)     max: 25641 Points
min: 16117     avg: 17761     median: 17400 (15%)     max: 19260 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1854     avg: 2101     median: 2187 (26%)     max: 2262 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
927 Points (39%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
2339 Points (4%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
935 Points (4%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
2510 Points (8%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 4162     avg: 4230     median: 4263 (43%)     max: 4265 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 10255     avg: 10398     median: 10380 (12%)     max: 10558 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
1309 Points (18%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
4058 Points (10%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4843     avg: 4958     median: 4958 (9%)     max: 5073 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 1146     avg: 1238     median: 1237.5 (24%)     max: 1329 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4207     avg: 4933     median: 4953 (8%)     max: 5619 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1202     avg: 1386     median: 1410 (21%)     max: 1520 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
2410 Points (19%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
3734 Points (34%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
10547 Points (21%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
4350 Points (9%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
6201 Points (16%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
839 MFLOPS (28%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
626 MFLOPS (61%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 718     avg: 723     median: 720 (1%)     max: 731 ms
min: 4037     avg: 4731     median: 5067 (6%)     max: 5089 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
149 ms (2%)
min: 347.1     avg: 518     median: 546 (6%)     max: 689 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 564     avg: 633     median: 632.5 (6%)     max: 701 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 34163     avg: 34876     median: 35209 (32%)     max: 35255 Points
min: 7534     avg: 8336     median: 8518 (8%)     max: 9253 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
130 Points (27%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
min: 2583     avg: 2627     median: 2613 (70%)     max: 2686 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
min: 2951     avg: 3162     median: 3109 (69%)     max: 3425 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
min: 4666     avg: 4957     median: 4742 (63%)     max: 5463 Points
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 33360     avg: 34836     median: 34729 (80%)     max: 36419 points
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
min: 56852     avg: 65987     median: 68265.5 (69%)     max: 72094 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 197851     avg: 206760     median: 204270 (70%)     max: 218158 Points
77963 Points (27%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
11107 Points (34%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
50699 Points (62%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
94618 Points (29%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
99873 Points (61%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
256297 Points (45%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
2156 Iter./s (66%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
23154 Iter./s (76%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 447370     avg: 452346     median: 453409 (60%)     max: 456258 Points
min: 162584     avg: 169599     median: 169794 (22%)     max: 176225 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 5050     avg: 5098     median: 5113 (26%)     max: 5130 Points

Average Benchmarks Apple A11 Bionic → 100% n=6

Average Benchmarks Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa → 60% n=6

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