Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

Compared 2 processors: Apple A11 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A11 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
486501
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
676837
CPU169816207306
GPU123983171454
Memory100789166898
UX91913131179
NanoReview Score486501676837
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A11 Bionic
3432
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
3166
Stability71 %n/a
Graphics Test20 fps18 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A11 Bionic
1087
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
964
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A11 Bionic
2346
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
2761
File Compression104 MB/s130.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser53.7 pages/s71.4 pages/s
PDF Rendering50.2 MP/sec101.8 MP/sec
Background Blur9.18 frames/s10.5 frames/s
Photo Processing30.7 frames/s25 frames/s
Image Detection15.5 frames/s51.3 frames/s
HDR83.7 MP/sec84.1 MP/sec
Ray Tracing3.19 MP/sec3.49 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2/2.39 (Monsoon)
- 4/1.42 (Mistral)
- 1/2.4 (Cortex-A710)
- 3/2.36 (Cortex-A710)
- 4/1.8 (Cortex-A510)
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 2390 2400
Instruction set ARMv8-A n/a
L1 cache 64 KB n/a
L2 cache 8 MB 3 MB
Process tech. 10 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 4.3 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 8 W 5 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A11 GPU Adreno 644
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 1066 MHz 443 MHz
Execution Units 3 3
Shader Units 64 384
Total shader 192 768
FLOPS 409.3 GFLOPS 680.4 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.1
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12.1

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine Hexagon

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
Max RAM 4 GB 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 2436x1125 pixels 2560x1600 pixels
Camera 1x32 pixels 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem n/a Snapdragon X62
4G Support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support No Yes
Download speed Up to 600 MB/s Up to 4400 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 150 MB/s Up to 1600 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 5 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2017 yr May, 2022 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1W72 SM7450-AB

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