Exynos 1380 vs A15 Bionic

We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 1380 (Mali-G68 MP5) with the older 6-core Apple A15 Bionic (Apple A15 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
DeviceFacts Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Samsung Exynos 1380
  • Has 2 more cores
Pros of Apple A15 Bionic
  • Performs 5.6x better in floating-point computations
  • Shows significantly better (up to 84%) AnTuTu 11 score – 1413K vs 767K
  • Higher GPU frequency (~41%)
  • 35% higher CPU clock speed (3230 vs 2400 MHz)
  • Supports 33% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 25.6 GB/s)
  • Better instruction set architecture

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
767711
A15 Bionic +84%
1413275
CPU 320484 410975
GPU 91141 370837
Memory 113558 164151
UX 242528 467312
Total score 767711 1413275
Samples [113 tests] [69 tests]
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect DeviceFacts scores.

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
A15 Bionic +130%
2315
Multi-Core Score
A15 Bionic +112%
5753
Asset compression 146.7 MB/sec 208.1 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 64.4 pages/sec 122.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 109.8 Mpixels/sec 139.1 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 53.7 images/sec 125.1 images/sec
HDR 95.9 Mpixels/sec 179.4 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 9.4 images/sec 22.3 images/sec
Photo processing 27.2 images/sec 53.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.23 Mpixels/sec 6.26 Mpixels/sec
Samples 56 tests 37 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
A15 Bionic +569%
20400
Background blur 4.46 images/sec 35.4 images/sec
Face detection 2.17 images/sec 44.8 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.19 Gpixels/sec 0.82 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.14 Gpixels/sec 0.84 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.05 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 9.21 Gpixels/sec 71.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 538 FPS 2198.2 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Samples 35 tests 19 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Score 279 -
Stability 98% -
Graphics test 2 FPS -
3DMark Solar Bay
Score - 3765
Stability - 71%
Graphics test - 14 FPS
Section 1 - 19 FPS
Section 2 - 14 FPS
Section 3 - 9 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
A15 Bionic +253%
2854
Score 808 2854
Stability 99% 76%
Graphics test 4 FPS 17 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 10597 -
Video editing score 7345 -
Data manipulation score 10909 -
Photo editing score 25069 -
Writing score 16185 -
Phones tested 8 models -

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 1380
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-13 (Abdou DZ)AnTuTu 12866883
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-13 (Lazy)AnTuTu 11893295
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-11 -> VAMPRAnTuTu 12866171
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-07 (bes)AnTuTu 12872304
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-05 -> Danielfikri98_AnTuTu 12843108
Apple A15 Bionic
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-14 (Makkar)AnTuTu 111191717
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-12 -> HotPowerGeekbench 7 CPU2155 / 5548
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-07 (Hoz4ik)AnTuTu 111127460
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-25 -> op1Geekbench 6 CPU2168 / 4988
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-23 -> HotPowerAnTuTu 111184759

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 1380 and A15 Bionic

CPU

Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Cores 8 6
Frequency 2400 MHz 3230 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 256 KB
L2 cache - 12 MB
L3 cache 4 MB -
Process 5 nanometers 5 nanometers
Transistor count - 15 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W 6 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G68 MP5 Apple A15 GPU
Architecture Valhall 2nd gen Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 949 MHz 1338 MHz
Pipelines 5 5
Shading units 32 128
Total shaders 160 640
FLOPS 303.7 Gigaflops 1712.6 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance 4.9 TOPS 15.8 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 25.6 Gb/s 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP -
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 3790 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 1280 Mbps Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced February 2023 September 2021
Class Mid range Flagship
Model number S5E8835 APL1W07
Official page Samsung Exynos 1380 official site -
Successor - Samsung Exynos 1580 - Apple A19 Pro

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oi oi oi baka February 17, 2025 at 08:34 PM
I want to have all the Exynos 1380 chips in the world and either eat them or break them so bad and replace the phones that had them with the A15 Bionic!!!!!!!!!!!!
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