Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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Apple A15 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 . 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 1.3721 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 8 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +59%

1290037

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

810488

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +102%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

1151

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +72%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

3336

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +24%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

1372

Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

3230 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

7 nm

15

Transistor count

10.3

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 650

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

670 MHz

5

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

512

6

Max size

16

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.3721 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 698

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 698

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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

X55

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

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

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

SM8250-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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