Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 vs Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 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 870 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 1.3721 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

810488

Apple A15 Bionic +59%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

1151

Apple A15 Bionic +102%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

3336

Apple A15 Bionic +72%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

1372

Apple A15 Bionic +24%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

3200 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

1 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

5 nm

10.3

Transistor count

15

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 650

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

670 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

2

Execution units

5

512

Shading units

128

16

Max size

6

1.3721 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 698

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, 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+

X55

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8250-AC

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Official page

-

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