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58

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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

34

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Snapdragon 685
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 685 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 46
Snapdragon 685 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 47
Snapdragon 685 9
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 58
Snapdragon 685 34
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 685
CPU 209204 81894
GPU 351594 39122
Memory 118044 77991
UX 130276 71216
Total score 809118 270223
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 15.36% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3230 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 199.43% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (809 K vs 270 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 685 1609

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 685

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 685

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 685

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 685

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 685

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 685

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 685

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
N/A
Snapdragon 685
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

47%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-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 610
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 96
  • 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 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type NVMe 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+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - 390 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - 150 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

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
46%
GPU
47%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
CPU
14%
GPU
9%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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