Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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 8s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +15%

1489956

Apple A15 Bionic

1290037

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +97%

3379

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

Architecture

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

3000 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

1 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

8 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 735

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

1100 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

2

Execution units

5

768

Shading units

128

24

Max size

6

3.3792 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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+

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 6500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Mar 2024

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8635

Model number

APL1W07

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Official page

-

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