Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
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 A15 Bionic
1299090
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
626536
CPU309916212110
GPU432105120714
Memory243964141171
UX313105152541
NanoReview Score1299090626536
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
n/a
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
1017
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
2910
File Compression203.3 MB/s158.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s71.4 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec106.8 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s9.48 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s27.8 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s57.3 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec92.6 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec4.03 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2400
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB n/a
Process tech. 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 15 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W 5 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Adreno 710
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 700
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 940 MHz
Execution Units 5 2
Shader Units 128 128
Total shader 640 256
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 481.3 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
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS n/a

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 6 GB 12 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 2.2
- UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 2520x1080 pixels
Camera n/a 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem n/a Snapdragon X62
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 2900 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 1600 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr September, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1W07 SM6475-AB

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A15 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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