Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Apple A15 Bionic

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

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Apple A15 Bionic
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1169574
Apple A15 Bionic
1299090
CPU315665309916
GPU426818432105
Memory192834243964
UX234257313105
NanoReview Score11695741299090
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
6718
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
Stabilityn/a82 %
Graphics Test40 fps56 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1661
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
4002
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
File Compression154.9 MB/s203.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser112.7 pages/s124.4 pages/s
PDF Rendering147.2 MP/sec143.5 MP/sec
Background Blur13.8 frames/s22.2 frames/s
Photo Processing36.3 frames/s60.2 frames/s
Image Detection94 frames/s130 frames/s
HDR122 MP/sec169.9 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.39 MP/sec5.93 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile 88 FPS (Ultra) n/a
CODCall of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS (Ultra) n/a
FortniteFortnite 42 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends 89 FPS (Ultra) n/a
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz 114 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang 40 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Device Xiaomi Poco F4 GT (1080x2400) n/a

Processor

Architecture - 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
- 3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Process Samsung TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 3000 3230
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache n/a 256 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 12 MB
L3 Cache 6 MB n/a
Process tech. 4 nm 5 nm
Transistor count n/a 15 billion
Power (TDP) 5.3 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 730 Apple A15 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 818 MHz 1338 MHz
Execution Units 2 5
Shader Units 512 128
Total shader 1024 640
FLOPS 1675.3 GFLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.1 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Hexagon Apple Neural Engine
GPU Frequency n/a 15.8 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2732x2048 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels n/a
Video recording 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X65 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 MB/s Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3670 MB/s Up to 3000 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS

Other

Announced December, 2021 yr September, 2021 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename SM8450 APL1W07

Results

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

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