Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple A15 Bionic

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Frequency
2390 MHz
3230 MHz
Cores
6
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache
64 KB
256 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
10 nm
5 nm
Transistor count
4.3
15
TDP
8 W
6 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
Apple A15 GPU
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
1338 MHz
Execution units
3
5
Shading units
64
128
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.1
-
DirectX version
12
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
Neural Engine
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
2732 x 2048
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, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 12
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
5.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Sep 2017
Sep 2021
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W72
APL1W07

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
409,550
1,290,037
Geekbench 6
1,097
2,333
Geekbench 6
2,357
5,741
FP32 (float)
409
1,712