Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs Apple A15 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 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 855 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Apple A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.8985 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2840MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
592031
Apple A15 Bionic
+117%
1290037
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
939
Apple A15 Bionic
+148%
2333
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
2855
Apple A15 Bionic
+101%
5741
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
898
Apple A15 Bionic
+90%
1712
CPU
1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Architecture
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
2840 MHz
Frequency
3230 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
1 MB
L2 cache
12 MB
0
L3 cache
-
7 nm
Process
5 nm
6.7
Transistor count
15
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 640
GPU name
Apple A15 GPU
585 MHz
GPU frequency
1338 MHz
2
Execution units
5
384
Shading units
128
16
Max size
6
0.8985 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
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.13 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon 690
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
X24 LTE, X50 5G
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 20
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 5000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 1240 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Dec 2018
Announced
Sep 2021
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8150
Model number
APL1W07
