Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 768g

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 768g 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 768g 25
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 768g 19
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 768g 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 768g 40
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 768g
CPU 209204 126539
GPU 351594 116499
Memory 118044 84021
UX 130276 120080
Total score 809118 447139
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 15.36% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 768g (3230 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 60.00% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 768g (1200 vs 750 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 768g (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 768g (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 80.95% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 768g (809 K vs 447 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 768g.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 100.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 768g (34.1 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 768g 725

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 768g 2054

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 768g

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 768g

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 768g

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 768g

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 768g

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 768g

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 768g

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 11 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz, QHD+ @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 3200 x 1800
  • Max External Display - 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 475 Prime (Cortex-A76)
    1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 475 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 475 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 620
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 5 3
  • Shading units 640 192
  • FLOPS - 700 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 12 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 696
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3200 x 1800
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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 - X52
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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 768g

CPU
25%
GPU
19%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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