Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3200MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 6.3W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +18%

1534534

Apple A15 Bionic

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

2004

Apple A15 Bionic +16%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

5344

Apple A15 Bionic +7%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +103%

3481

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

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

3200 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

1 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

6.3 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 740

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

680 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

2

Execution units

5

1280

Shading units

128

24

Max size

6

3.4816 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, 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+

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Nov 2022

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8550-AB

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Official page

-

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