Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Apple A11 Bionic

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, vs Apple A11 Bionic. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 and Apple A11 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 8s Gen 4
2082208
Apple A11 Bionic
486501
CPU475806169816
GPU881311123983
Memory390065100789
UX33502691913
NanoReview Score2082208486501
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
n/a
Apple A11 Bionic
3432
Stabilityn/a71 %
Graphics Testn/a20 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
2154
Apple A11 Bionic
1087
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
6880
Apple A11 Bionic
2346
File Compression293.2 MB/s104 MB/s
HTML5 Browser196.7 pages/s53.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering221.6 MP/sec50.2 MP/sec
Background Blur24.1 frames/s9.18 frames/s
Photo Processing63.9 frames/s30.7 frames/s
Image Detection154.6 frames/s15.5 frames/s
HDR217.4 MP/sec83.7 MP/sec
Ray Tracing8.01 MP/sec3.19 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 3.21 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2/2.39 (Monsoon)
- 4/1.42 (Mistral)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 3210 2390
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache n/a 64 KB
L2 cache 6 MB 8 MB
Process tech. 4 nm 10 nm
Transistor count n/a 4.3 billion
Power (TDP) n/a 8 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 825 Apple A11 GPU
Architecture Adreno 800 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 1150 MHz 1066 MHz
Execution Units 2 3
Shader Units 512 64
Total shader 1024 192
FLOPS 2355.2 GFLOPS 409.3 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12 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

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 4800 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 76.8 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 4 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 NVMe
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2436x1125 pixels
Camera 1x320 pixels 1x32 pixels
Video recording 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support n/a LTE Cat. 12
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 4200 MB/s Up to 600 MB/s
Upload speed n/a Up to 150 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 5
Bluetooth version 6.0 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced April, 2025 yr September, 2017 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename SM8735 APL1W72

Results

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

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