Comparing Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A15 Bionic

description_compare Apple A15 Bionic and Apple M1 (7-GPU)

• Name
  Apple A15 Bionic Apple M1 (7-GPU)
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series Apple M series
• Generation
  15 1
• CPU group
  Apple A15 Apple M1
• Predecessor
  Apple A14 Bionic --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)

• GPU name
  Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores) Apple M1 (7 Core)
• GPU frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  3.20 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  5 112
• Shader
  0 896
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  12 1
• Technology
  5 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q4/2020

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2 (Dual Channel)

• TDP up
  -- 20 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None Apple Virtualization Framework
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  A15 M1
• Technology
  5 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q4/2020
• Part Number
  -- APL 1102