Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

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Apple A15 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3200MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +40%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

1665

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +36%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

4202

Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

3230 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

4 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 730

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

5

Execution units

-

128

Shading units

-

6

Max size

24

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

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 30FPS, 4K 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 X65

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

是

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

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

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

May 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

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