Samsung Exynos 990 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 990 Apple A15
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  4 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 (Prime / big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Frequency
  2.00 GHz 3.23 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.73 GHz No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• 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-G77 MP11 Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz 1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 3.20 GHz
• Execution units
  11 5
• Shader
  176 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Generation
  Vallhall 1 12
• Technology
  7 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2019 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 990. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-2750 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  12 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 990 and Apple A15 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 990 and Samsung Exynos 990, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  1.50 MB 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Exynos M5/Cortex-A76/-A55 A15
• Technology
  7 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2020 Q3/2021