Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio P22. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Apple A15 Mediatek Helio P22/P35
• Family
  Apple A series Mediatek Helio
• Generation
  15 3
• Predecessor
  Apple A14 Bionic -
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  2x Avalanche 4x Cortex-A53
• B-Core
  4x Blizzard 4x Cortex-A53
• Base Frequency
  3.23 GHz -
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  6 8
• CPU Threads
  6 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  No turbo -
• A-Core Frequency
  - 2.00 GHz (2.00 GHz)
• B-Core Frequency
  - 1.50 GHz (1.50 GHz)

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 10
• Execution units
  5 1
• Generation
  12 -
• GPU Frequency
  1800 MHz 650 MHz
• GPU name
  Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores) PowerVR GE8320
• GPU Turbo
  3200 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 1
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q1/2017
• Shader
  0 -
• Technology
  5 nm 20 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  Decode No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by MediaTek Helio P22 and Apple A15 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 6 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-3200
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 12.8 GB/s

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A15 Bionic and MediaTek Helio P22 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  8.5 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A15 Bionic and MediaTek Helio P22, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  A15 Cortex-A53
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  4 MB -
• Part Number
  - MT6762
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q2/2018
• Technology
  5 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Operating systems
  - Android