Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

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Apple A15 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 . 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 0.4864 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 8nm)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +253%

1290037

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

365230

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +192%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

797

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +202%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

1900

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +252%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

486

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)

3230 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

8 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 619

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

5

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

128

6

Max size

8

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4864 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 692

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 692

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

-

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 900 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Jun 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W07

Model number

SM6350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

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