Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 . 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 0.0432 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1400MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 28nm)
Released 6 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+853%
1290037
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
135324
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+1032%
2333
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
206
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+590%
5741
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
832
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+3881%
1.712 TFLOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
0.043 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
3230 MHz
Frequency
1400 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
12 MB
L2 cache
-
-
-
-
5 nm
Process
28 nm
15
Transistor count
1
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 505
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
450 MHz
5
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
48
6
Max size
4
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0432 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
800 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
1x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 536
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
-
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X6
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 4
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 75 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Sep 2015
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1W07
Model number
MSM8937
