Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 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

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 28nm)

Released 6 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

135324

Apple A15 Bionic +853%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

206

Apple A15 Bionic +1032%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

832

Apple A15 Bionic +590%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

43

Apple A15 Bionic +3881%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1400 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

12 MB

28 nm

Process

5 nm

1

Transistor count

15

6 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 505

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

450 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

1

Execution units

5

48

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

0.0432 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 536

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 536

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 21MP

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. 4

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

Sep 2015

Announced

Sep 2021

Low end

Class

Flagship

MSM8937

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

Official page

-

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