Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Based on benchmark performance, Apple A15 Bionic achieves a higher total AnTuTu score of 1,286,140 (tested by 91Mobiles), compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1's 993,826 (tested by 91Mobiles), making Apple A15 Bionic the more powerful processor.

Apple A15 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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Summary

Release Date

Sep, 2021

Dec, 2021

CPU

Hexa Core

(3.23 GHz, Dual Core + 2.02 GHz, Quad core)

Octa core

(3 GHz, Single Core + 2.5 GHz, Tri core + 1.8 GHz, Quad core)

Process Node

5 nm

4 nm

GPU

Apple A15 GPU

Adreno 730

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5

AnTuTu Score

1,286,140

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993,826

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Geekbench Score

2,244/5,152

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1,225/3,613

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Phones Powered by These SoCs

Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

Benchmark

AnTuTu (The higher, the better)

AnTuTu measures CPU, GPU, memory and overall performance in different scenarios

Apple A15 Bionic 1,286,140

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 993,826

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CPU

333,640

221,657

GPU

412,062

438,314

Memory

234,963

163,249

305,475

170,606

Geekbench (The higher, the better)

The Geekbench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance

Geekbench Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic 2,244

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 1,225

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Geekbench Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic 5,152

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3,613

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General

SoC Brand

Apple

Qualcomm

Title

Apple A15 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Model No

APL1W07

SM8450

Manufacturing

TSMC

Samsung

CPU

Total Cores

Hexa Core

Octa core

CPU

Hexa Core (3.23 GHz, Dual Core, Avalanche + 2.02 GHz, Quad core, Blizzard)

Octa core (3 GHz, Single Core, Cortex X2 + 2.5 GHz, Tri core, Cortex A710 + 1.8 GHz, Quad core, Cortex A510)

Architecture (The higher, the better)

64 bit

Process Node

5 nm

4 nm

Instruction Set

ARMv8.5-A

ARMv9-A

L1 Cache

256 KB

N/A

L2 Cache

12 MB

1 MB

L3 Cache

N/A

6 MB

GPU

Apple A15 GPU

Adreno 730

GPU Clock speed

1.338 GHz

818 MHz

Pipelines

Shading Units

128

512

Total Shaders

640

1024

FLOPS

1712.6 Gigaflops

1675.3 Gigaflops

Vulkan Version

N/A

1.1

OpenCL Version

N/A

2.0 FP

OpenGL Version

N/A

ES 3.2

DirectX Version

N/A

12.1

AI

NPU

Neural Engine

Hexagon

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5

Memory Speed

2.133 GHz

3.2 GHz

Bus

4x16 Bit

Memory Max bandwidth

34.1 Gb/s

51.2 Gb/s

Memory Max size

6 GB

24 GB

Storage Type

NVMe

UFS 3.1

Camera

Max Camera Sensor Supported

N/A

200 MP

Max Video Capture Resolution

UHD @ 60 FPS

8K @ 30 FPS

Display

Max On-Device Display Resolution

2732x2048

UHD

Multimedia

Video Playback Resolution

UHD @ 60 FPS

8K @ 30 FPS

Video Codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Audio Codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Modem Name

N/A	Snapdragon X65

5G Support

Yes

Peak Download Speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 10000 Mbps

Peak Upload Speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Wi-Fi Version

Wi-Fi Standard

a, ac, ax, b, g, n, n 5GHz

Bluetooth Version

5.0

5.3

Navigation

BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, GPS, QZSS

BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, GPS, NavIC, QZSS

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