Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . 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 1.6896 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3000MHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (67.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+15%
1490645
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+1%
1712
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
1689
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
3230 MHz
Frequency
3000 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
12 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
8 MB
5 nm
Process
4 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 735
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
5
Execution units
2
128
Shading units
256
6
Max size
24
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.6896 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
-
Modem
Snapdragon X70 5G
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Mar 2024
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
SM8635
