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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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 7 Gen 3 44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 37
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
CPU 209204 256787
GPU 351594 272332
Memory 118044 177778
UX 130276 159966
Total score 809118 866863
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 22.81% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (3230 vs 2630 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 7.14% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (867 K vs 809 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 1128

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 3375

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
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Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WFHD+@168 Hz, WQHD+@120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+, Adaptive HDR10, Ultra HDR
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

70%
Turbo Clock Speed

2630 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.6-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 720
  • Architecture - Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
  • 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 X63
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • 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
55%
GPU
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
CPU
44%
GPU
37%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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