Samsung Exynos 1280 vs Apple A15 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Samsung Exynos Apple A series
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 1280 Apple A15
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  6 15
• Predecessor
  -- 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
  ARM Mali-G68 MP4 Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
• GPU frequency
  1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 3.20 GHz
• Execution units
  4 5
• Shader
  64 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Generation
  Vallhall 2 12
• Technology
  6 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2020 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 / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode Decode
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode / Encode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A15 Bionic and Samsung Exynos 1280. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4XLPDDR5 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• Memory channels
  4 (Quad Channel) 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 1280 and Apple A15 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 1280 and Samsung Exynos 1280, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  5 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  -- N/A
• L2-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A78/-A55 A15
• Virtualization
  None None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q3/2021