Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus
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 778G Plus
635680
CPU309916212957
GPU432105154666
Memory243964137272
UX313105130785
NanoReview Score1299090635680
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus
2635
Stability82 %98 %
Graphics Test56 fps15 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus
1064
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus
3006
File Compression203.3 MB/s159.1 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s74.5 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec118.7 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s11.2 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s26.5 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s58.4 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec95.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec4.28 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1/2.5 (Kryo 670 Prime Cortex-A78)
- 3/2.4 (Kryo 670 Gold Cortex-A78)
- 4/1.8 (Kryo 670 Silver Cortex-A55)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2500
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB 2 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 6 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 642
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 608 MHz
Execution Units 5 2
Shader Units 128 256
Total shader 640 512
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 622.6 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 770
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 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 2.2
- UFS 3.0
- UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 2520x1080 pixels
Camera n/a 1x192 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
- 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 X53
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 3700 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
- SBAS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr October, 2021 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1W07 SM7325-AE

Results

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

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