Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +701%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +665%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +1018%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3230 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

12 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

5 nm

Process

28 nm

15

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 510

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

6

Max size

4

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 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 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

-

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 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, VP8

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X8

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

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Feb 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W07

Model number

MSM8956

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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