Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 778g

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 778g 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 778g 32
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Snapdragon 778g 25
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 778g 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 778g 45
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 778g
CPU 209204 161744
GPU 351594 156423
Memory 118044 90737
UX 130276 131554
Total score 809118 540458
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 34.58% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778g (3230 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 144.90% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778g (1200 vs 490 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 778g (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778g (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 49.71% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 778g (809 K vs 540 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 778g.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 778g 792

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 778g 2850

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 778g 175.3

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 778g 25

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 778g 41

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 778g 36.7

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 778g 34.6

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 778g 3.03

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 778g 988.8

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 14 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Up to FHD @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB 2 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 642L
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 490 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 384
  • FLOPS - 684 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • 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 Hexagon 770
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 36MP
  • 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 - X53
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • 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

CPU
55%
GPU
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

CPU
32%
GPU
25%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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