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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

78

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 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 Plus Gen 2 54
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 100
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 67
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
CPU 209204 246704
GPU 351594 352464
Memory 118044 176323
UX 130276 171430
Total score 809118 946921
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 11.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (3230 vs 2910 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 106.90% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (1200 vs 580 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 33.20% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (34.1 vs 25.6 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 17.03% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (947 K vs 809 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 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 Plus Gen 2 1656

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 4482

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
38%
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
Stability 85%

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - QHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 3360 x 1600
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

2910 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.49 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm -
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 4 Billion
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 725
  • Architecture - Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 580 MHz
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.2
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
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
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K 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 - X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 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
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
CPU
54%
GPU
46%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
100%
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