Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 720G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Snapdragon 720G 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 720G 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 720G 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 720G
CPU 209204 98820
GPU 351594 71078
Memory 118044 47158
UX 130276 52126
Total score 809118 269182
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 40.43% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (3230 vs 2300 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 60.00% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (1200 vs 750 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 128.62% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (4266 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (5 vs 8 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 200.58% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (809 K vs 269 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 720G 569

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 720G 1780

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 720G 110.2

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 720G 13.1

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 720G 27.3

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 720G 26.1

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 720G 15.7

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 720G 2.16

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 720G 533.6

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 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 @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - 1 MB
  • Process 5 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 618
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 128
  • FLOPS - 435 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 13.91 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 Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS, 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+ 384 kHz/32 bit
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X15
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 15
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • 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
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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