Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Apple A10 Fusion

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2340MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A10 Fusion +49%

347439

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A10 Fusion +124%

879

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A10 Fusion +67%

1332

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Apple A10 Fusion

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +34%

334

Apple A10 Fusion

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2340 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

4

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

16 nm

Process

14 nm

3.3

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 530

650 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 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, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9645M

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 100 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2016

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W24

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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