Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Apple A10 Fusion

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Apple A10 Fusion

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 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 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages

Higher Frequency (2340MHz vs 2150MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Apple A10 Fusion +33%

347439

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Apple A10 Fusion +172%

879

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

Apple A10 Fusion +61%

1332

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +28%

319

Apple A10 Fusion

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Apple A10 Fusion

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2150 MHz

Frequency

2340 MHz

4

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

3.3

11 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

624 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

256

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.3194 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

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M10

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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

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. 12

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

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996

Model number

APL1W24

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

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