Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 732g

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 732g 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 732g 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 732g 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 732g 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 732g 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 732g
CPU 209204 101696
GPU 351594 92391
Memory 118044 54702
UX 130276 96441
Total score 809118 345230
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 732g (3230 vs 2300 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 48.15% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 732g (1200 vs 810 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 128.62% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 732g (4266 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 732g (5 vs 8 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 134.37% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 732g (809 K vs 345 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 732g.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 128.86% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 732g (34.1 vs 14.9 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 732g 565

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 732g 1778

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 732g 108.4

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 732g 13.8

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 732g 26.7

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 732g 25.8

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 732g 15.6

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 732g 1.58

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 732g 549.4

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Up to QHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 3360 x 1440
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
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 470 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 470 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8-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 810 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 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 688
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3360 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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 - 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
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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