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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

Snapdragon 480 Plus
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 480 Plus 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 480 Plus 16
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 47
Snapdragon 480 Plus 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 58
Snapdragon 480 Plus 33
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 209204 103367
GPU 351594 83956
Memory 118044 61234
UX 130276 96732
Total score 809118 345289
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 480 Plus (3230 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 45.45% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1200 vs 825 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (5 vs 8 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 134.33% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (809 K vs 345 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 480 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 480 Plus 505

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 480 Plus

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 480 Plus

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 480 Plus

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
5%
Snapdragon 480 Plus
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A -
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 3 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 2
  • Shading units 640 128
  • 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 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • 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 1500 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

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU
16%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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