Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 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 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Apple A15 Bionic +453%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Apple A15 Bionic +496%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Apple A15 Bionic +620%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Apple A15 Bionic +412%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2342 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

4

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

1 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

15

11 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

653 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

1

Execution units

5

256

Shading units

128

8

Max size

6

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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

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

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

-

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