Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
We’ve thoroughly compared the latest A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 860 SoCs, developed by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. Our analysis covers the strengths and weaknesses of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs, evaluated through their Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark scores and other key specifications.
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 9.12% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3230 vs 2960 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (5 vs 7 nm).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 74.39 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (809 K vs 464 K).
- A15 Bionic Chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Pros of Snapdragon 860
- Snapdragon 860 has -43.75 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 675 vs 1200 MHz).
- Snapdragon 860 Support 0.09 % higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip ( 34.13 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 209204 | 143028 |
| GPU | 351594 | 179320 |
| Memory | 118044 | 69420 |
| UX | 130276 | 72190 |
| Total score | 809118 | 463958 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 98% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 20 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 3455 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard |
1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver) |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 1800MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 2960MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv8.1-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | 2 MB |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Adreno 640 |
| Architecture | - | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 675 MHz |
| Pipelines | 5 | 2 |
| Shading units | 640 | 384 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 768 |
| FLOPS | - | 1037 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Hexagon 690 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 34.13 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| 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+ | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | X24 LTE, X50 5G |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 20 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 5000 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 2000 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 1200 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 316 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS |
Info
| Announced | September 2021 | April 2019 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | SM8150-AC |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Snapdragon 860 official site |