Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

VS

Apple A10 Fusion

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2340MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (16nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A10 Fusion +202%

879

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A10 Fusion +77%

1332

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

FP32 (float)

Apple A10 Fusion +62%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

Apple A10 Fusion

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2340 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

4

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

0

L3 cache

-

16 nm

Process

28 nm

3.3

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 510

650 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

128

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 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

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9645M

Modem

X8

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 100 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2016

Announced

Feb 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W24

Model number

MSM8956

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

Related SoC Comparison

1

Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

2

Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

3

Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 765

4

Apple A10 Fusion vs MediaTek Dimensity 7025

5

Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 712

6

Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

7

Apple A10 Fusion vs MediaTek Dimensity 1100

8

Apple A10 Fusion vs Samsung Exynos 8895

9

Apple A10 Fusion vs MediaTek Helio G85

10

Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus