Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

VS

Apple A10 Fusion

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion vs. 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0288 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2340MHz vs 2000MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A10 Fusion +789%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

28

Apple A10 Fusion

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

CPU

2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2340 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

4

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

16 nm

Process

12 nm

3.3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 504

650 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0288 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

1600 x 900

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9645M

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 100 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2016

Announced

Jun 2018

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W24

Model number

SDM429

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

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