Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . 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 0.3343 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2390MHz vs 2342MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
Lower TDP (8W vs 11W)
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
+75%
409550
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
233076
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+180%
1097
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
391
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A11 Bionic
+195%
2357
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
797
FP32 (float)
Apple A11 Bionic
+22%
409
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
334
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo
2390 MHz
Frequency
2342 MHz
6
Cores
4
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
10 nm
Process
14 nm
4.3
Transistor count
2
8 W
TDP
11 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 530
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
653 MHz
3
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
256
4
Max size
8
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3343 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.0
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
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
X12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Aug 2016
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W72
Model number
MSM8996 Pro-AC
