Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Apple A10 Fusion

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Apple A10 Fusion

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs. 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2340MHz vs 1800MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

Apple A10 Fusion +57%

347439

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

Apple A10 Fusion +197%

879

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

1088

Apple A10 Fusion +22%

1332

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

Apple A10 Fusion +35%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

Apple A10 Fusion

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr

1800 MHz

Frequency

2340 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

3.3

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

720 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M10

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9645M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

Sep 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

APL1W24

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

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