Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Apple A17 Pro
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched A15 Bionic Chip and A17 Pro SoCs, developed by Apple and Apple respectively. Our assessment weighs the benefits and drawbacks of these 6-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, as well as their full technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of A15 Bionic Chip
- A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
Pros of A17 Pro
- A17 Pro has 17.03 % higher CPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 3780 vs 3230 MHz).
- A17 Pro has 16.50 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 1398 vs 1200 MHz).
- A17 Pro has 40.00 % smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip ( 3 vs 5 nm).
- A17 Pro has 101.66 % better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip ( 1632 K vs 809 K).
- A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip .
- A17 Pro Support 50.15 % higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip ( 51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 209204 | 399992 |
| GPU | 351594 | 620081 |
| Memory | 118044 | 265579 |
| UX | 130276 | 346005 |
| Total score | 809118 | 1631657 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 79% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 60 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 10002 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard |
2x 3.78 GHz 4x 2.02 GHz |
| Cores | 6 | 6 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 2020MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 3780MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv9-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | 256 KB |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | 16 MB |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 3 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | 19 billion |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Apple A17 GPU |
| Architecture | - | Apple GPU |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Pipelines | 5 | 6 |
| Shading units | 640 | 128 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 256 |
| FLOPS | - | 2147.2 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | - |
| OpenCL version | - | - |
| DirectX version | - | - |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Neural Engine |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | - |
| Max camera resolution | - | - |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | - |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | - |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | - |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.3 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
Info
| Announced | September 2021 | September 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | APL1V02 |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | A17 Pro official site |