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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) vs MediaTek Helio G85

Last updated: 2026-06-05

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 (5-GPU)

Rank 2 - 19 %

MediaTek Helio G85

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Rank 2 - 25 %

MediaTek Helio G85

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

424

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

1,322

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

359

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

1,283

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)

1,713

ARM Mali-G52 MP2

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

825,116 pts

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

226,311 pts

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

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	MediaTek Helio G85
Family	Apple A series (27)	Mediatek Helio (37)
CPU group	Apple A15 (2)	MediaTek Helio G70/G80 (4)
Architecture	A15	Cortex-A75 / Cortex-A55
Technology	5 nm	12 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A14 Bionic
Successor	Apple A16 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	MediaTek Helio G85
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz	2x Cortex-A75 2.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz	6x Cortex-A55 1.80 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	MediaTek Helio G85
GPU name	Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)	ARM Mali-G52 MP2
GPU frequency	1.34 GHz	1.00 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	2 / 32
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB
Technology	5 nm	16 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q3/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	MediaTek Helio G85
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	MediaTek Helio G85
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	(14.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	MediaTek Helio G85
TDP	10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	MediaTek Helio G85
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	Q2/2020
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 A15 Bionic (5-GPU) is 4.2 stars (195 ratings), while MediaTek Helio G85 has received 3.5 stars (110 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

★★★★★

MediaTek Helio G85
8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

★★★★★