Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . 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 0.148 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2500MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 28nm)
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+922%
1290037
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
126118
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+1056%
1.712 TFLOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
0.148 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
4x 2.5 GHz – Krait
3230 MHz
Frequency
2500 MHz
6
Cores
4
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
12 MB
L2 cache
2 MB
-
-
-
5 nm
Process
28 nm
15
Transistor count
1
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 330
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
578 MHz
5
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
128
6
Max size
4
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.148 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.0
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2560 x 2048
-
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
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
-
-
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 5
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Feb 2014
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
MSM8974 v3
