Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 vs Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 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 888 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2840MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

1481

Apple A15 Bionic +57%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

3794

Apple A15 Bionic +51%

5741

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

1720

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2840 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.4-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

1 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

0

L3 cache

-

5 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

10 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 660

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

840 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

2

Execution units

5

512

Shading units

128

24

Max size

6

1.72 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 780

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 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS

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+

X60

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

是

5G support

Yes

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 316 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

Dec 2020

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8350

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Official page

-

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