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Apple A11 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 990

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 98 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Samsung Exynos 990

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 76 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Samsung Exynos 990

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,093

8C / 8T · 2.73 GHz

1,144

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,997

8C / 8T · 2.73 GHz

2,645

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

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

932

8C / 8T · 2.73 GHz

923

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

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

2,569

8C / 8T · 2.73 GHz

2,779

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A11

409

ARM Mali-G77 MP11

1,126

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

295,465 pts

8C / 8T · 2.73 GHz

510,697 pts

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

0.6 TOPS

8C / 8T · 2.73 GHz

15.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Samsung Exynos 990
Family	Apple A series (27)	Samsung Exynos (49)
CPU group	Apple A11 (1)	Samsung Exynos 990 (1)
Architecture	A11	Exynos M5/Cortex-A76/-A55
Technology	10 nm	7 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10 Fusion
Successor	Apple A12 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Samsung Exynos 990
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Monsoon 2.39 GHz	2x Exynos M5 2.73 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Mistral 1.19 GHz	2x Cortex-A76 2.50 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	1.50 MB
L3-Cache		2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Samsung Exynos 990
GPU name	Apple A11	ARM Mali-G77 MP11
GPU frequency	1.07 GHz	0.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 192	11 / 176
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	1
Max. GPU Memory	3 GB	4 GB
Technology	10 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2017	Q2/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Samsung Exynos 990
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Samsung AI engine
AI specifications	2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS	2 NPU cores @ 15 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Samsung Exynos 990
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-2750
Max. Memory	3 GB	12 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Samsung Exynos 990
TDP	8 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Samsung Exynos 990
Chip design	Chiplet	Unknown
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	Android
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q3/2017	Q1/2020
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A11 Bionic is 3.6 stars (57 ratings), while Samsung Exynos 990 has received 4.1 stars (34 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

★★★★★

Samsung Exynos 990
8C / 8T · 2.73 GHz

★★★★★