Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 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 660 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

225927

Apple A15 Bionic +470%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

345

Apple A15 Bionic +576%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

1242

Apple A15 Bionic +362%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

217

Apple A15 Bionic +688%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

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Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.84 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

2 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

14 nm

Process

5 nm

1.75

Transistor count

15

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 512

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

850 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

1

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

6

0.2176 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

13.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

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

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

May 2017

Announced

Sep 2021

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6115

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

Official page

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