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Apple A11 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A11 Bionic
Rank 2 - 78 %
Samsung Exynos 1280
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A11 Bionic
Rank 2 - 82 %
Samsung Exynos 1280
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz
1,093
Samsung Exynos 1280
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
845
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz
1,997
Samsung Exynos 1280
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
1,829
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz
932
Samsung Exynos 1280
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
741
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz
2,569
Samsung Exynos 1280
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
1,855

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicSamsung Exynos 1280
FamilyApple A series (27)Samsung Exynos (49)
CPU groupApple A11 (1)Samsung Exynos 1280 (1)
ArchitectureA11Cortex-A78/-A55
Technology10 nm5 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A10 Fusion
SuccessorApple A12 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicSamsung Exynos 1280
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Monsoon
2.39 GHz
2x Cortex-A78
2.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Mistral
1.19 GHz
6x Cortex-A55
2.00 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicSamsung Exynos 1280
GPU nameApple A11ARM Mali-G68 MP4
GPU frequency1.07 GHz
CUs / Shader12 / 1924 / 64
Raytracing
Max. displays11
Max. GPU Memory3 GB
Technology10 nm6 nm
Release dateQ3/2017Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicSamsung Exynos 1280
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicSamsung Exynos 1280
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4X
Max. Memory3 GB
Memory channels14
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicSamsung Exynos 1280
TDP8 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicSamsung Exynos 1280
Chip designChipletUnknown
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2017Q1/2022
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A11 Bionic
Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz
Samsung Exynos 1280
Samsung Exynos 1280
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

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