A15 Bionic

A-series chip used in iPhone 13 through iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone SE 3rd generation

2 variants

Spec A15 Bionic
6c CPU / 5c GPU
A15 Bionic
6c CPU / 4c GPU
Current Devices Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) –
CPU
CPU Cores 6 6
Performance Cores 2 2
Performance CPU Name Avalanche Avalanche
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 3.24 3.24
Efficiency Cores 4 4
Efficiency CPU Name Blizzard Blizzard
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.01 2.01
CPU ISA ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.6-A
GPU
GPU cores 5 4
Execution Units 80 64
ALU Count 640 512
Ray Tracing ✗ ✗
GPU Vendor Apple Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 15.8 15.8
Memory
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory options (GB) 6 4
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
H264
HEVC
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 5 5
Transistors (billion) 15 15
Part number APL1W07 APL1W07
Release date 2021-09-14 2021-09-14

All Devices, Including Discontinued