Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 28nm)

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Advantages

Lower TDP (4W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +1554%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

141

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +825%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

620

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +3881%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

43

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3230 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

28 nm

15

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 505

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

48

6

Max size

4

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0432 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

-

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W07

Model number

MSM8940

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

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