Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3200MHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+69%
2186467
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
3230 MHz
Frequency
3200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
12 MB
L2 cache
2.75 MB
-
L3 cache
8 MB
5 nm
Process
4 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 825
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1150 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
-
6
Max size
24
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Apr 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
SM8735
