Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
We’ve put together a comprehensive comparison of the newly released A15 Bionic Chip and Snapdragon 888 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 13.73% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3230 vs 2840 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 0.08 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 (809 K vs 808 K).
- A15 Bionic Chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888.
Pros of Snapdragon 888
- Snapdragon 888 has -30.00 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 840 vs 1200 MHz).
- Snapdragon 888 Support 50.15 % higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip ( 51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 209204 | 211734 |
| GPU | 351594 | 306250 |
| Memory | 118044 | 133870 |
| UX | 130276 | 156641 |
| Total score | 809118 | 808495 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 91% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 30 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 5126 |
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 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 1800MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 2840MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv8.4-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | 512 KB |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 MB |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Adreno 660 |
| Architecture | - | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 840 MHz |
| Pipelines | 5 | 2 |
| Shading units | 640 | 512 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 1024 |
| FLOPS | - | 1720 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Hexagon 780 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS |
| 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 | - | X60 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 22 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 3000 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 316 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 | December 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | SM8350 |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Snapdragon 888 official site |