Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 vs Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.024 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 28nm)

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

136588

Apple A15 Bionic +844%

1290037

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

24

Apple A15 Bionic +7033%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1400 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

4

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

-

L2 cache

12 MB

28 nm

Process

5 nm

1

Transistor count

15

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 308

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

500 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

1

Execution units

5

24

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

0.024 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

667 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

5.34 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 536

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1280 x 800

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

X6

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 75 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Sep 2021

Low end

Class

Flagship

MSM8917

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

Official page

-

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