Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 SoCs by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 46
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 47
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 13
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 58
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 37
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
CPU 209204 114597
GPU 351594 93082
Memory 118044 68776
UX 130276 111637
Total score 809118 388092
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 61.50% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (3230 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 45.45% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (1200 vs 825 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 108.49% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (809 K vs 388 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 620

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 1835

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

50%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A -
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 619
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 825 MHz
  • Execution units 5 4
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP
  • 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, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 2500 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 800 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps 900 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 210 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
46%
GPU
47%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

CPU
19%
GPU
13%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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