Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+741%
1290037
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
153310
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+1280%
2333
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
169
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+652%
5741
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
763
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+1388%
1712
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
115
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
3230 MHz
Frequency
1800 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
12 MB
L2 cache
-
5 nm
Process
14 nm
15
Transistor count
2
6 W
TDP
3 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 506
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
600 MHz
5
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
96
6
Max size
4
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.1152 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
1x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
7.46 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 546
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
-
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP, 2x 13MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p 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
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X9
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Jun 2017
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1W07
Model number
SDM450
