Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 778G Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 778G Plus 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 778G Plus 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 29.20% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (3230 vs 2500 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 118.18% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1200 vs 550 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 778G Plus (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778G Plus (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 39.21% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 778G Plus (809 K vs 581 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 778G Plus.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 33.20% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 778G Plus (34.1 vs 25.6 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 778G Plus 816

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 778G Plus

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 778G Plus

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 778G Plus

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 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 - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 2.5 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 550 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 384
  • FLOPS - 845 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

6 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

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 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP
  • 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

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 3700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1600 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • 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, 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 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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