Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 vs Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 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 0.284 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 6nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

310059

Apple A15 Bionic +316%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

414

Apple A15 Bionic +463%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

1447

Apple A15 Bionic +296%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

284

Apple A15 Bionic +502%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

2400 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

-

L2 cache

12 MB

6 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 610

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

1110 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

1

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

6

0.284 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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+

X11

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 390 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2021

Announced

Sep 2021

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM6225

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

Official page

-

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