Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
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 8s Gen 4
2082208
CPU309916475806
GPU432105881311
Memory243964390065
UX313105335026
NanoReview Score12990902082208
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
n/a
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
2154
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
6880
File Compression203.3 MB/s293.2 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s196.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec221.6 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s24.1 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s63.9 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s154.6 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec217.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec8.01 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 3.21 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 3210
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB 6 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 15 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A15 GPU Adreno 825
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 800
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 1150 MHz
Execution Units 5 2
Shader Units 128 512
Total shader 640 1024
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 2355.2 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12

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 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 76.8 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 3840x2160 pixels
Camera n/a 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support LTE Cat. 24 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 4200 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 7
Bluetooth version 5.0 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr April, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 SM8735

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 the clear winner in this comparison.

Survey

Which smartphone would you pick?
5 (38.46%)
8 (61.54%)
Total Votes: 13

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