Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

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Apple A15 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.727 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +187%

1290037

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

448489

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +312%

2333

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

566

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +176%

5741

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

2075

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +135%

1712

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

727

Apple A15 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)

3230 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

10 nm

15

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 630

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

710 MHz

5

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

256

6

Max size

8

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.727 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 685

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 685

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X20

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Dec 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

SDM845

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

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