Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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Apple A15 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 . 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 1.0368 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2960MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +102%

1290037

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

636716

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +134%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

996

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +123%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

2569

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +65%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

1036

Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

3230 MHz

Frequency

2960 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

7 nm

15

Transistor count

6.7

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 640

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

675 MHz

5

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

384

6

Max size

16

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.0368 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

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 690

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

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

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Apr 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

SM8150-AC

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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