Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 695
We’ve put together a comprehensive comparison of the newly released A15 Bionic Chip and Snapdragon 695 SoCs, brought to you by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. This analysis breaks down the pros and cons of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs, evaluated through their Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark scores, along with their technical details.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of A15 Bionic Chip
- A15 Bionic Chip has 46.82% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 695 (3230 vs 2200 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 695 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 695 (5 vs 6 nm).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 117.86 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 695 (809 K vs 371 K).
- A15 Bionic Chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 695.
- A15 Bionic Chip supports 100.59 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 695 ( 34.1 vs 17 MHz).
Pros of Snapdragon 695
- Snapdragon 695 has -30.00 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 840 vs 1200 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 209204 | 115765 |
| GPU | 351594 | 93638 |
| Memory | 118044 | 60715 |
| UX | 130276 | 101282 |
| Total score | 809118 | 371400 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 99% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 7 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 1204 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard |
2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 660 Gold (Cortex-A77) 6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 660 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 1700MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 2200MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 6 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Adreno 619 |
| Architecture | - | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 840 MHz |
| Pipelines | 5 | - |
| Shading units | 640 | 128 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 256 |
| FLOPS | - | 536 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Hexagon 686 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 17 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 1K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 1080p at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Snapdragon X51 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 800 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 1500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 210 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2021 | October 2021 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid-range |
| Model number | APL1W07 | SM6375 |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Snapdragon 695 official site |