Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
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 888
913477
CPU309916244750
GPU432105305779
Memory243964162981
UX313105199967
NanoReview Score1299090913477
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
5824
Stability82 %63 %
Graphics Test56 fps34 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
1427
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
3423
File Compression203.3 MB/s160.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s99.4 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec125.2 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s11.5 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s28 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s68.5 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec87.1 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec4.77 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile n/a 83 FPS (Ultra)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile n/a 60 FPS (Ultra)
FortniteFortnite n/a 26 FPS (Ultra)
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends n/a 89 FPS (Ultra)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz n/a 112 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact n/a 60 FPS (Ultra)
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang n/a 58 FPS (Ultra)
Device n/a Asus Zenfone 8 (1080x2400)

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
- 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 2840
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 4 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 5 nm
Transistor count 15 billion 10.3 billion
Power (TDP) 6 W 8 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Adreno 660
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 840 MHz
Execution Units 5 3
Shader Units 128 256
Total shader 640 768
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 1290.2 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 780
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 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 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 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K 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 X60
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 December, 2020 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 SM8350

Results

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

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