Apple M2 Pro vs Apple A15 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple M series Apple A series
• CPU group
  Apple M2 Apple A15
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 15
• Predecessor
  Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) Apple A14 Bionic

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No

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

• GPU name
  Apple M2 Pro (16 Core) Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
• GPU frequency
  1.40 GHz 1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 3.20 GHz
• Execution units
  256 5
• Shader
  2048 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  2 12
• Technology
  5 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q3/2021

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No Decode
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A15 Bionic and Apple M2 Pro. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M2 Pro and Apple A15 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  45 W 8.5 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple M2 Pro and Apple M2 Pro, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  5 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• L2-Cache
  36.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  M2 A15
• Virtualization
  Apple Virtualization Framework None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q3/2021