Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 . 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)
Lower TDP (6W vs 6.3W)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
+18%
1534534
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+16%
2333
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
2004
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+7%
5741
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
5344
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
1.712 TFLOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
+103%
3.481 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
3230 MHz
Frequency
3200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
L1 cache
12 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
0
5 nm
Process
4 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
6.3 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 740
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
680 MHz
5
Execution units
2
128
Shading units
1280
6
Max size
24
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
3.4816 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
64 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 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
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Nov 2022
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
SM8550-AB
