Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 782G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 782G 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 782G 37
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 782G 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 782G 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 782G 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 782G
CPU 209204 172419
GPU 351594 233993
Memory 118044 98521
UX 130276 110849
Total score 809118 615782
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 19.63% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 782G (3230 vs 2700 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 118.18% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 782G (1200 vs 550 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 782G (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 782G (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 31.40% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 782G (809 K vs 616 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 782G.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 100.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 782G (34.1 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 782G 956

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 782G 3478

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 782G

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 782G

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 782G

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 782G

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 782G

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 782G

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 782G

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 4K @ 60 Hz
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10, HLG
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

71%
Turbo Clock Speed

2700 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 2.7 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime core (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (also Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 5 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 4.68 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 -
  • Shading units 640 512
  • FLOPS - 906.58 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 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 770
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x200 MP, 2x64 MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30 FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60 FPS
  • 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 6/6E
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GLONASS, NavIC, Beidou, GPS, QZSS, Galileo
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 782G

CPU
37%
GPU
31%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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