Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Unisoc Tiger T612

We’ve meticulously compared the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Tiger T612 SoCs, developed by Apple and Unisoc respectively. This comparison focuses on the pros and cons of their 6-core and 8-core CPUs, backed by performance metrics from Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, and technical specifications.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
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

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of A15 Bionic Chip
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 79.44% higher CPU clock speed than Tiger T612 (3230 vs 1800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 166.63% higher memory frequency than Tiger T612 (4266 vs 1600 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 285.55 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Tiger T612 (809 K vs 210 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Tiger T612.
  • A15 Bionic Chip supports Infinity % higher memory bandwidth than Tiger T612 ( 34.1 vs MHz).
Pros of Tiger T612
  • Tiger T612 has -45.83 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 650 vs 1200 MHz).
  • Tiger T612 has 140.00 % smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip ( 12 vs 5 nm).

Benchmarks

Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.

AnTuTu 10

The AnTuTu Benchmark evaluates CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O capabilities across various scenarios.
CPU 209204 67603
GPU 351594 22171
Memory 118044 61955
UX 130276 58129
Total score 809118 209858

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Stability 82% 97%
Graphics test 56 FPS 2 FPS
Score 9524 413

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 9300

CPU

Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 6 8
Base Frequency 2020MHz 1800MHz
Turbo Frequency 3230MHz 1800MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L2 cache 256 KB -
L2 cache 32 MB -
L3 cache - -
Process 5 nanometers 12 nanometers
Transistor count 15 billion -
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W -

Graphics

GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G57 MP1
Architecture - Valhall
GPU frequency 1200 MHz 650 MHz
Pipelines 5 1
Shading units 640 -
Total shaders 1280 -
FLOPS - -
Vulkan version - 1.0
OpenCL version - 2.0
DirectX version - 11

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine -

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 4266 MHz 1600 MHz
Bus - -
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
Max size 6 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2160 x 1080
Max camera resolution - 1x 50MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 30FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Modem - -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
5G support Yes No
Download speed 5G Up to 7500 Mbps -
Download speed 4G - Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed 5G Up to 3000 Mbps -
Upload speed 4G - Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced September 2021 May 2022
Class Flagship Low end
Model number APL1W07 -
Official page A15 Bionic Chip official site Tiger T612 official site