Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 . 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 0.3244 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2200MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 11nm)
Released 9 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+278%
1290037
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
340607
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+240%
2333
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
685
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+266%
5741
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
1568
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+428%
1712
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
324
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
3230 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
12 MB
L2 cache
256 KB
5 nm
Process
11 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 612
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
845 MHz
5
Execution units
2
128
Shading units
96
6
Max size
8
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3244 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 685
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
-
Max camera resolution
1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
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, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
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
Dec 2020
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W07
Model number
SM6150-AC
