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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

78

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Snapdragon 690
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 690

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 690 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 55
Snapdragon 690 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 690 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 690 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 690 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 690
CPU 209204 110385
GPU 351594 76645
Memory 118044 63724
UX 130276 94636
Total score 809118 345390
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 690 (3230 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 26.32% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (1200 vs 950 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (5 vs 8 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 134.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (809 K vs 345 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 690.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 128.86% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (34.1 vs 14.9 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 690 607

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 690 1852

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 690 111.3

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 690 16.9

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 690 28.8

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 690 26.7

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 690 15.9

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 690 2.25

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 690 579.5

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
4%
Snapdragon 690
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60Hz
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 619L
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 950 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 14.9 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 692
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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, VP8, 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 - X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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