Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 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 0.3244 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 11nm)

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

340607

Apple A15 Bionic +278%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

685

Apple A15 Bionic +240%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

1568

Apple A15 Bionic +266%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

324

Apple A15 Bionic +428%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

256 KB

L2 cache

12 MB

11 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

6 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 612

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

845 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

2

Execution units

5

96

Shading units

128

8

Max size

6

0.3244 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 685

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 192MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Dec 2020

Announced

Sep 2021

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6150-AC

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Official page

-

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