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Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A6

Apple A15 Bionic

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The Apple A15 Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPhone 13 and iPad Mini (2021) models. It was announced late 2021 and offers 6 cores divided in 2 performance cores and four power efficiency cores. The CPU performance increases only slightly compared to the A14, but GPU (in the higher end models) offers higher gains.

The chip is manufactured in 5nm and integrates 15.8 billion transistors (compared to the 11.8 of the A14).

Apple A6

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The Apple A6 is a dual-core SoC found in the iPhone 5 with ARM compatible CPU cores. The A6 was developed by Apple and supports the extended ARMv7s instruction set. The clock rate of the CPU is between 800 to 1200 MHz depending on the CPU load. The integrated GPU is a PowerVR SGX543MP3 at 266 MHz.

ModelApple A15 BionicApple A6
SeriesApple Apple A-SeriesApple Apple A-Series
Series: Apple A-Series
Apple A18 Pro compare - 4 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A18 compare - 3.8 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A15 Bionic « 2.02 - 3.23 GHz6 / 6 cores32 MB L3
Apple A12 Bionic compare - 2.49 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A6x compare1.4 GHzcores
Apple A61 GHzcores
Apple A18 Pro compare - 4 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A18 compare - 3.8 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A15 Bionic2.02 - 3.23 GHz6 / 6 cores32 MB L3
Apple A12 Bionic compare - 2.49 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A6x compare1.4 GHzcores
Apple A6 « 1 GHzcores
Clock2020 - 3230 MHz1000 MHz
L2 Cache16 MB
L3 Cache32 MB
Cores / Threads6 / 62
Transistors15800 Million
Technology5 nm32 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction Set, Machine Learning Controller, 16-Core Neural Engine, Secure Enclave, Advanced Image Signal Processor
iGPUApple A15 GPU 5-Core
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 A15 +
min: 1852     avg: 2027     median: 1913 (18%)     max: 2307 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 A15 +
2130 Points (24%)
Geekbench 6.3 - Geekbench 6.3 Single-Core
100%
1 A15 +
2332 Points (59%)
Geekbench 6.3 - Geekbench 6.3 Multi-Core
100%
1 A15 +
5661 Points (22%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A15 +
min: 1590     avg: 1723     median: 1734 (68%)     max: 1755 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A15 +
min: 4559     avg: 4755     median: 4788 (9%)     max: 4914 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A6 +
1273 Points (2%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A6 +
min: 701     avg: 706     median: 705.5 (14%)     max: 710 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 A6 +
940 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
1 A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
1 A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
A15 +
min: 413.6     avg: 455.6     median: 451 (1%)     max: 507.3 ms
14535 ms (17%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
A15 +
77 ms (1%)
11%
A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
1 A6 +
935 ms (9%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 A15 +
min: 57143     avg: 63305     median: 64026.5 (53%)     max: 65969 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
100%
1 A15 +
min: 188     avg: 188.3     median: 188 (52%)     max: 189 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
100%
1 A15 +
min: 219     avg: 254.3     median: 250 (45%)     max: 279 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
100%
1 A15 +
min: 722973     avg: 788523     median: 800415 (39%)     max: 832548 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
100%
1 A15 +
min: 192891     avg: 209810     median: 209802 (52%)     max: 227638 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
A15 +
min: 10349     avg: 10411     median: 10410.5 (1%)     max: 10472 Points
240%
A6 +
24996 Points (3%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 A15 +
min: 1132     avg: 1156     median: 1145 (43%)     max: 1190 Points
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
100%
1 A15 +
min: 4.54     avg: 4.9     median: 5 (2%)     max: 5.64 Watt
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
100%
1 A15 +
min: 0     avg: 0.7     median: 0.7 (1%)     max: 1.415 Watt

Average Benchmarks Apple A15 Bionic → 100% n=3

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 85% n=3

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)