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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) vs Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-04

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 A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 22 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

20C / 20T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

20C / 20T · 3.20 GHz

23,970

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

20C / 20T · 3.20 GHz

1,793

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

20C / 20T · 3.20 GHz

24,055

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)

1,370

Apple M1 Ultra (48 Core)

15,900

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

15.8 TOPS

20C / 20T · 0.60 GHz

22.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

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 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A15 (2)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	A15	M1
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor
Successor	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	20 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz	16x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB	52.00 MB
L3-Cache	32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)	Apple M1 Ultra (48 Core)
GPU frequency	1.34 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 512	768 / 6144
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	5
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q1/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS	32 Neural cores @ 22 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (819.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	1	8
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
TDP	10 W	60 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		120 W
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2021	Q1/2022
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) is 4.4 stars (100 ratings), while Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU) has received 4.9 stars (110 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
20C / 20T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★