Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . 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 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +395%

1290037

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +622%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +594%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +436%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

3230 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

6

Cores

4

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

12 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

5 nm

Process

14 nm

15

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 530

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

256

6

Max size

8

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 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

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

MSM8996

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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