Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
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 870
819661
CPU309916237856
GPU432105281535
Memory243964125373
UX313105174897
NanoReview Score1299090819661
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
4334
Stability82 %90 %
Graphics Test56 fps25 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
1141
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
3317
File Compression203.3 MB/s148.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s85.5 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec113.5 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s10.8 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s28.3 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s72.7 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec102.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec4.18 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile n/a 88 FPS (Ultra)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile n/a 59 FPS (Ultra)
FortniteFortnite n/a 27 FPS (Ultra)
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends n/a 102 FPS (Ultra)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz n/a 107 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact n/a 60 FPS (Ultra)
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang n/a 49 FPS (Ultra)
Device n/a Xiaomi Black Shark 4 (1080x2400)

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
- 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 3200
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 4 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 15 billion 10.3 billion
Power (TDP) 6 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Adreno 650
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 670 MHz
Execution Units 5 3
Shader Units 128 256
Total shader 640 768
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 1029.1 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 698
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 2750 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 44 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 3.0
- UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Camera n/a 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 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 X55
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 3000 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 January, 2021 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 SM8250-AC

Results

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

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