GPUIntegrated (APU)Released Sep 24, 2021

Apple A15 Bionic GPU (5-core)

6 GB LPDDR4X-4266 · 64-bit · 640 cores

The full five-core GPU of the A15 Bionic, introduced in the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max in September 2021 and also used in the iPad mini (6th generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus and Apple TV 4K (3rd generation). The iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini and iPhone SE (3rd generation) use a four-core version.

General

Manufacturer: Apple
Model: A15 Bionic GPU (5-core)
Segment: Integrated (APU)
GPU chip: Apple A15 Bionic
Architecture: Apple GPU (Family 8)
Release date: Sep 24, 2021
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Memory

Memory size: 4 – 6 GB
Memory type: LPDDR4X-4266 (unified)
Bus width: 64-bit
Bandwidth: 34.1 GB/s
Memory clock: —

Clocks & silicon

GPU clock: —
Boost clock: —
Shader units: 640 ALUs (5 cores)
Tensor / AI cores: —
RT cores: —
Transistors: 15 billion
Technology (nm): 5 nm
TSMC N5P
TDP / TBP: —

Interface & APIs

Bus interface: Integrated (on-die)
SLI / multi-GPU: None
DirectX: N/A (iOS / iPadOS)
OpenGL: ES 3.0 (deprecated)
Vulkan: via MoltenVK
Other APIs: Metal 4

AI support

Precisions: FP8FP16BF16INT8INT4TF32FP64
AI accelerator: 16-core Neural Engine (15.8 TOPS, SoC)
Peak AI TOPS: 15.8 TOPS
Notes: The GPU supports FP16 and INT8 compute through Metal. The 15.8 TOPS figure belongs to the separate 16-core Neural Engine in the A15 Bionic SoC.

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