AMD Sempron 3850 vs Apple A15 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  AMD Sempron Apple A series
• Generation
  1 15
• CPU group
  AMD Sempron 2000/3000 Apple A15
• 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.

• Frequency
  1.30 GHz 3.23 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 6
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 2x Avalanche
• B core
  -- 4x Blizzard

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
  AMD Radeon HD 8280 Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
• GPU frequency
  0.45 GHz 1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 3.20 GHz
• Execution units
  2 5
• Shader
  128 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  5 12
• DirectX Version
  11.1
• Technology
  28 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q3/2021

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No 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 AMD Sempron 3850. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Sempron 3850 and Apple A15 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  25 W 8.5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Sempron 3850 and AMD Sempron 3850, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L2-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Kabini (Jaguar) A15
• Technology
  28 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  AM1 N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q3/2021