Apple A15 Bionic vs Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
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
Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
1299948
CPU309916351855
GPU432105487080
Memory243964213520
UX313105247493
NanoReview Score12990901299948
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
7655
Stability82 %46 %
Graphics Test56 fps45 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
1767
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
4591
File Compression203.3 MB/s195.5 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s118.1 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec175.1 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s16.5 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s34 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s117.5 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec146.3 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec5.31 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile n/a 89 FPS (Ultra)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile n/a 60 FPS (Ultra)
FortniteFortnite n/a 47 FPS (Ultra)
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends n/a 114 FPS (Ultra)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz n/a 120 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact n/a 58 FPS (Ultra)
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang n/a 56 FPS (Ultra)
Device n/a ZTE Nubia Red Magic 7S Pro (1080x2400)

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
- 3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
- 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 3200
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 6 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 15 billion n/a
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 730
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 700
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 900 MHz
Execution Units 5 2
Shader Units 128 512
Total shader 640 1024
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 1843.2 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
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 3.1
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, 4K at 120FPS
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 X65
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 10000 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 3670 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr May, 2022 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 SM8475

Results

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

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