Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 . 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 0.284 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 10nm)
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
+32%
409550
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
310059
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+164%
1097
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
414
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+62%
2357
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
1447
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
+44%
409
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
284
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
2390 MHz
Frequency
2400 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
10 nm
Process
6 nm
4.3
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 610
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
1110 MHz
3
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
128
4
Max size
8
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.284 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.1
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
17 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 686
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X11
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 390 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Oct 2021
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1W72
Model number
SM6225
