Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2630MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2630MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +48%

1290037

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

866863

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

3230 MHz

Frequency

2630 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

12 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

4 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 720

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

-

5

Execution units

-

128

Shading units

-

6

Max size

16

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3360 x 1600

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS

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 X63

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Nov 2023

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W07

Model number

SM7550-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

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