Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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Apple A15 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.7308 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (77GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3300MHz vs 3230MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic

1290037

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +61%

2079542

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +6%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

2181

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +26%

7250

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +176%

4730

Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520

3230 MHz

Frequency

3300 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

4 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 750

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

903 MHz

5

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

1536

6

Max size

24

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

4.7308 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

77 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Oct 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

SM8650-AB

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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