Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +1016%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +526%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

3230 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

12 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

5 nm

Process

14 nm

15

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

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

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

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

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

Audio codecs

AIFF

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

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

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W07

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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