Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Apple A15 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 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 8s Gen 4 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Apple A15 Bionic Advantages
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 3200MHz)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+69%
2186467
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
CPU
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Architecture
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
3200 MHz
Frequency
3230 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
2.75 MB
L2 cache
12 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
5 nm
-
Transistor count
15
-
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 825
GPU name
Apple A15 GPU
1150 MHz
GPU frequency
1338 MHz
-
Execution units
5
-
Shading units
128
24
Max size
6
-
FLOPS
1.7126 TFLOPS
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
76.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
-
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Connectivity
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 4200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
6
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Apr 2025
Announced
Sep 2021
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8735
Model number
APL1W07
