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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) vs Intel Atom Z550

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
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Multi-core performance
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At a glance

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Atom Z550
FamilyApple A series (27)Intel Atom (108)
CPU groupApple A15 (2)Intel Atom Z500 (1)
ArchitectureA15Silverthorne
Technology5 nm45 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
SocketBGA 441
PredecessorApple A14 Bionic
SuccessorApple A16 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Atom Z550
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 61 / 1
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Core Cluster 1: 2x Avalanche
3.23 GHz
1x
2.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Blizzard
2.02 GHz
L2-Cache16.00 MB0.50 MB
L3-Cache32.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Atom Z550
GPU nameApple A15 (5 GPU Cores)no iGPU
GPU frequency1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader20 / 640 /
Raytracing
Max. displays3
Max. GPU Memory6 GB
Technology5 nm
Release dateQ3/2021

NPU AI performance

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Atom Z550
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Atom Z550
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB2 GB
Memory channels10
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Atom Z550
TDP10 W2.4 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.90 °C

Technical details

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Atom Z550
Chip designChipletMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOS
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3
Release dateQ3/2021Q2/2009
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
Intel Atom Z550
Intel Atom Z550
1C / 1T · 2.00 GHz

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