Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 680

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 680 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 55
Snapdragon 680 16
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 680 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 680 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 680 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 680
CPU 209204 81097
GPU 351594 38425
Memory 118044 68438
UX 130276 63600
Total score 809118 251560
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 34.58% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (3230 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 7.72% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (1200 vs 1114 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 680 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 680 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 221.64% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (809 K vs 252 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 100.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (34.1 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 680 368

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 680 1496

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 680

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 680

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 680

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 680

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 680

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 680

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 680

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8-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 610
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1114 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 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 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
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU
16%
GPU
10%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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