Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus 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 7 Plus Gen 3
1411268
CPU309916368941
GPU432105485676
Memory243964314911
UX313105241740
NanoReview Score12990901411268
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
10829
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fps64 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
1913
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
5098
File Compression203.3 MB/s212.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s154 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec181.3 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s16.7 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s45.7 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s117.4 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec156.1 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec5.53 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 3x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A520
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2800
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-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 5.5 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Adreno 732
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 700
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 950 MHz
Execution Units 5 3
Shader Units 128 256
Total shader 640 768
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 1459.2 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
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 Yes
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 4200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 67.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 24 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 4.0
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 2560x1600 pixels
Camera n/a 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- 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 X63 5G
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 5000 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 7
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr March, 2024 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1W07 SM7675-AB

Results

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