Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 . 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 0.1843 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+484%
1290037
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
220696
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+690%
2333
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
295
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+427%
5741
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
1088
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+830%
1712
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
184
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (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
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 509
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
5
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
128
6
Max size
8
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.1843 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
5.3 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
1900 x 1200
-
Max camera resolution
1x 24MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 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
Oct 2017
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W07
Model number
SDM636
