Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 vs Apple A15 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Apple A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.2432 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 6nm)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
354293
Apple A15 Bionic
+264%
1290037
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
475
Apple A15 Bionic
+391%
2333
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
1517
Apple A15 Bionic
+278%
5741
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
243
Apple A15 Bionic
+604%
1712
CPU
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
2800 MHz
Frequency
3230 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
-
L2 cache
12 MB
6 nm
Process
5 nm
-
Transistor count
15
-
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 610
GPU name
Apple A15 GPU
950 MHz
GPU frequency
1338 MHz
1
Execution units
5
128
Shading units
128
8
Max size
6
0.2432 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7126 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12.1
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
17 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon 686
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 2.2
Storage type
NVMe
2520 x 1080
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
Max camera resolution
-
1K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
X11
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 13
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 390 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Mar 2023
Announced
Sep 2021
Low end
Class
Flagship
SM6225-AD
Model number
APL1W07
