iPhone SE

iPhone SE (3rd generation) 1 chip A15 Bionic (6c CPU / 4c GPU) iPhone SE (2nd generation) 1 chip A13 Bionic (6c CPU / 4c GPU) iPhone SE (1st generation) 1 chip A9 (2c CPU / 6c GPU)

Chip Comparison

Spec A15 Bionic
6c CPU / 4c GPU
A13 Bionic
6c CPU / 4c GPU
A9
2c CPU / 6c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 6 6 2
Performance Cores 2 2 2
Performance CPU Name Avalanche Lightning Twister
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 3.24 2.65 1.85
Efficiency Cores 4 4
Efficiency CPU Name Blizzard Thunder
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.01
CPU ISA ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.4-A ARMv8-A
GPU
GPU cores 4 4 6
Execution Units 64
ALU Count 512
GPU Frequency (GHz) 650
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor Apple Apple PowerVR
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 8
Neural Engine TOPS 15.8
Memory
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X LPDDR4
Memory options (GB) 4 3
4
2
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
H264
HEVC
H264
HEVC
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 5 7 16
Transistors (billion) 15 8.5
Die size (mm²) 98.48
Part number APL1W07 APL1022
Release date 2021-09-14 2019-09-10 2015-09-09