Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A11 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4093 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 1400MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)
Released 2 years late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 's Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
+202%
409550
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
135324
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+432%
1097
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
206
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+183%
2357
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
832
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
+851%
409
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
43
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
2390 MHz
Frequency
1400 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
10 nm
Process
28 nm
4.3
Transistor count
1
8 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 505
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
450 MHz
3
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
48
4
Max size
4
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0432 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.0
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
800 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
1x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 536
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X6
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 4
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 75 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Sep 2015
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1W72
Model number
MSM8937
