Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 695

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 695 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 695 23
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 695 17
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 695 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 695 40
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 695
CPU 209204 115765
GPU 351594 93638
Memory 118044 60715
UX 130276 101282
Total score 809118 371400
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 695 (3230 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 42.86% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 695 (1200 vs 840 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 695 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 695 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 117.86% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 695 (809 K vs 371 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 695.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 100.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 695 (34.1 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 695 664

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 695 1869

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 695 111.3

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 695 16.9

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 695 28.8

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 695 26.7

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 695 15.9

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 695 2.25

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 695 579.5

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 7 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 - -
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 660 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 660 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 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 619
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 840 MHz
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 640 128
  • FLOPS - 536 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 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 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+ AAC, 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
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • 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 695

CPU
23%
GPU
17%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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