Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +726%

1290037

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

156131

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +1280%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

124

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

3230 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

14 nm

15

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 506

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

96

6

Max size

8

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

-

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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 150 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

Mid range

APL1W07

Model number

MSM8953

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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