Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.3721 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
+97%
810488
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
1097
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
+4%
1151
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
2357
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
+41%
3336
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
409
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
+235%
1372
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
2390 MHz
Frequency
3200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
0
10 nm
Process
7 nm
4.3
Transistor count
10.3
8 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 650
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
670 MHz
3
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
512
4
Max size
16
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.3721 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.1
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2750 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
44 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 698
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X55
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Jan 2021
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W72
Model number
SM8250-AC
