Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple A15 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (67.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Apple A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 1.6896 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3000MHz)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+15%
1490645
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
1.689 TFLOPS
Apple A15 Bionic
+1%
1.712 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
Architecture
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
3000 MHz
Frequency
3230 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache
1 MB
L2 cache
12 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
5 nm
-
Transistor count
15
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 735
GPU name
Apple A15 GPU
1100 MHz
GPU frequency
1338 MHz
2
Execution units
5
256
Shading units
128
24
Max size
6
1.6896 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7126 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12.1
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
67.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
Hexagon
NPU
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
-
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Snapdragon X70 5G
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 6500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
6
5.4
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Mar 2024
Announced
Sep 2021
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8635
Model number
APL1W07
