Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 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 0.727 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

448489

Apple A15 Bionic +187%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

566

Apple A15 Bionic +312%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

2075

Apple A15 Bionic +176%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

727

Apple A15 Bionic +135%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2800 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

256 KB

L2 cache

12 MB

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

5 nm

3

Transistor count

15

9 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 630

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

710 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

2

Execution units

5

256

Shading units

128

8

Max size

6

0.727 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 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 685

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 685

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 192MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

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+

X20

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 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 2017

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SDM845

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

Official page

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