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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) vs MediaTek Helio X30

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Rank 2 - 16 %

MediaTek Helio X30

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Rank 2 - 24 %

MediaTek Helio X30

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

10C / 10T · 2.60 GHz

359

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

10C / 10T · 2.60 GHz

1,143

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

10C / 10T · 2.60 GHz

304

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

10C / 10T · 2.60 GHz

1,295

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)

1,370

PowerVR 7XTP-MT4 (GT7400 Plus)

218

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 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	MediaTek Helio X30
Family	Apple A series (27)	Mediatek Helio (37)
CPU group	Apple A15 (2)	MediaTek Helio X30 (1)
Architecture	A15	Cortex-A73 / -A53 / -A35
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor
Successor	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	MediaTek Helio X30
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	10 / 10
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz	2x Cortex-A73 2.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz	4x Cortex-A53 1.90 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Cortex-A35 0 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	MediaTek Helio X30
GPU name	Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)	PowerVR 7XTP-MT4 (GT7400 Plus)
GPU frequency	1.34 GHz	0.85 - 0.85 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 512	8 / 32
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB
Technology	5 nm	10
Release date	Q3/2021	Q1/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	MediaTek Helio X30
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	MediaTek Helio X30
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-1866 (14.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	MediaTek Helio X30
TDP	10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	MediaTek Helio X30
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	Android
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q3/2021	Q2/2017
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 A15 Bionic (4-GPU) is 4.4 stars (98 ratings), while MediaTek Helio X30 has received 3.1 stars (7 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

MediaTek Helio X30
10C / 10T · 2.60 GHz

★★★★★