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61

Points
Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

30

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Snapdragon 678
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 678

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 678 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 52
Snapdragon 678 18
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 50
Snapdragon 678 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 678 61
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 61
Snapdragon 678 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 678
CPU 209204 101216
GPU 351594 51346
Memory 118044 48181
UX 130276 82701
Total score 809118 283444
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 46.82% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3230 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 42.01% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1200 vs 845 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 54.55% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (5 vs 11 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 185.46% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (809 K vs 283 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 678 529

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 678 1536

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 678 102.2

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 678 14.5

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 678 27.8

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 678 23.7

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 678 13.7

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 678 2.05

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 678 527.2

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
2%
Snapdragon 678
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

42%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 16 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 0.256 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 11 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 612
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 845 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 96
  • FLOPS - 354 Gigaflops
  • 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 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 685
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X12
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - 600 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - 150 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
52%
GPU
50%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
CPU
18%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%
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