Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 7020

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Dimensity 7020 SoCs by Apple and Mediatek respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Dimensity 7020 30
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Dimensity 7020 19
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 7020 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 7020 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 7020
CPU 209204 152839
GPU 351594 81155
Memory 118044 118550
UX 130276 124104
Total score 809118 476648
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 46.82% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 7020 (3230 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 7020 (1200 vs 900 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 7020 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 7020 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 69.75% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 7020 (809 K vs 477 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 7020.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 7020 897

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 7020 2282

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 7020

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 7020

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 7020

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 7020

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 7020

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 7020

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 7020

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+@120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU IMG BXM-8-256
  • Architecture - PowerVR IMG GPU
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 5 8
  • Shading units 640 18
  • FLOPS - 259.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 3.0
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 (Dual lane)
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Dimensity 7020

CPU
30%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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